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Re: Clarinet buying guide

Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2016-12-06 03:04

The Buffet E13 is a very popular model with many teachers and should be available used for around £500- £650.
However a highly underated clarinet is the Leblanc Esprit. Sadly no longer manufactured but occasionally found on the used market and "that website".

I sold an Esprit A clarinet about a year ago to a music student on a specialist music course whose Bb was an R13.
She, and her teacher, both rated the Esprit as being better than her R13.

The Yamaha 650 is also a well regarded instrument.

There are also some beautiful older Leblanc professional level clarinets on the used market, such as the LL, L7, L200.
These are wildly under-rated and hence often remarkable inexpensive.

I've been playing my pair of LLs for over 50 years now and would not change.

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