So working with an expert can save you a *lot* of money and time.
If you have a hard time closing the holes, maybe you'd prefer a plateau clarinet. For example, the size of hands might mean that you select one instrument over another. There are so many variables that come into play when selecting an instrument. They can help you play test, checkout your setup (mouthpiece, reed, etc.) and steer you right on the price of an instrument. If you really are having a hard time finding the right clarinet I might suggest getting help from a clarinet instructor or professor. So far, knock on wood, it has done well by us and I feel like it was an amazingly good investment for the money. And, this is a big one, this instrument does not crack. I would note that because of the brushed plastic finish, many people can not tell it's not wood.
My granddaughter has played a B12 clarinet for 2 years now and I often check it out. We (I work for Quinn the Eskimo Vintage Horns) ship worldwide and have a very good reputation for standing by our horns and providing replacement instruments. Pounds Sterling have almost always been higher value than American dollars, even after your Brexit thingy, so your Pound will have better buying power.Īnyhow, don't count on us to do all the work for you. You don't know what the exchange rate is? Go to xe.com and look it up. I shipped a baritone sax - a rather long and heavy instrument - to London a couple years back and the total shipping was just about $100, which was about twice what domestic shipping would have been. His number is in the banner ad at the top of the page. Ask him if he'd ship to you (probably yes). My opinion, if I wanted a new student clarinet, is to buy one of those B18s from Quinn for $299. The B12 is a decent horn and I'd stand by what JfW said: if the horn wasn't working properly, as determined by your instructor, you should have just gotten it repaired under warranty. If you want another student horn, that's fine.
I'm going to chalk that up to taking waaaay too many headache meds this week. OK, I did miss the part about you returning the B12. So any ideas you guys might have I would really appreciate? I am now thinking of getting the new 'Buffet Prodige', But before I do, does anyone have any opinions on any other makes of clarinet that might be as good for a progressing student, and maybe not as expensive that I could buy instead? I have all the mouthpieces I need, 'Yamaha 4C' and 5C, 'Hite premier', 'Vandoren 5RV'.
(some of this was due to my lack of technique, but not all of it I am sure) I tell you all of this because I am going to ask an unthinkable question. But when it finished I had a run of bad clarinet after bad clarinet.Įventually a shop sold me a brand new Buffet B12 this year for half the normal price when the new model came out, which I thought was amazing, until I found after a few weeks practice that it leaked real bad and would not let me blow through it and the tone in the clarion register was bad to say the least, in the end I returned it. The first was an SMS Academy clarinet which although very cheap actually worked well. I have not been learning for long, less then two years, but in that short time I have owned nearly 10 clarinets either permanently or briefly, chiefly because I have had great difficulty getting one that wasn't defective in some way.
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