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Author: Hugues Fardao
Date: 2021-11-29 01:53
A few words about what I feel here in France about this question.
I went last October to a clarinet day (Jacques Lancelot Challenge) in Rouen (France) and there were Buffet and Selmer stands. I was there to test the new Selmer Muse. I play Selmer myself and love their clarinets.
The story I wanted to tell, is that when students from the Rouen Conservatory went out of the concert hall for a little rest between two master-classes, they all gone right to the Buffet-Crampon stand, without even a look to the Selmer clarinets. We were few to be there testing Selmer instruments, and only adults. Teen students and pupils were hypnotized by Buffet.
Here in France, Buffet-Crampon is still recommanded and played in conservatories and music shools. But it is not an obligation I think, and there is a real interest for Selmer here, some of our best french clarinet players are Selmer artists : Philippe Berrod, Guy Dangain, Michel Portal, Louis Sclavis...
A musician I discuss with on a french clarinet forum said to me that when he was a teen in the '60s, his clarinet teacher wanted him to buy a Selmer (I think it was the Series 9*), it was the model they wanted at this time in his music school. Ulysse Delecluse in the Paris Conservatory played Selmer and suggested Selmer clarinets. In Caen Conservatory nowadays, I saw one pupil with a Selmer Présence, the children in their first year are Yamaha 250/255 players, and the other students play Buffet. It depends, historically, on the famous teacher who is in charge, of wich sound is wanted. Some teachers said a good clarinet is a good clarinet whatever the brand, some not. I discussed last month with a clarinetist and band director, a real Buffet-Crampon addict and lover, who told me my Selmer clarinets are fine.
I believe in the U.S. Selmer refers to jazz and Buffet-Crampon to classical music. In France it's not always... but often.
And if you look at the second hand online shops for private sellers in France, there are twice as many Buffet clarinets than Selmer clarinets for sale. No doubt Buffet-Crampon is far ahead, despite of Selmer is well known as a french brand in France.
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