The listeners could never tell the difference. I have given demonstrations behind a curtain using wood and then plastic. Ebonite and plastic are the same, or too close to call, and really relate to the time that Ebonite was nicer-sounding than plastic … a euphemism if you will. The difference cannot be told, and in inexpensive wood, plastic is much better: it doesn’t change pitch with temperature as badly as wood, and it doesn’t normally ever crack. All of the top of the line instruments in Buffet, Selmer and Leblanc are excellent these three major companies making student clarinets are very good indeed.Īs to plastic verses wood, there is no comparison … meaning just that. I happen to own and play presently a set of Leblanc “Opus” Clarinets, frightfully expensive, but the best instruments I have played. Buffet I think less of in the student line. But so also does Leblanc which makes Vito and Normandy. Since I represented the Selmer Company for many years and was a clinician for them, and also wrote articles for the “Bandwagon” magazine, a Selmer production, I am going to tell you that Selmer makes as good a student instrument as there is. The Selmer 100 may be a wooden clarinet, and the Bundy 577 also made by Selmer has a good reputation.
They may market Blessing, essentially a brass instrument company. Now they do have different reputations: Leblanc makes Vito and Normandy. As a clarinetist of 50 years I feel quite safe in presenting an unfettered opinion.Īll of the instruments you mention in your second paragraph are essentially the same in quality: Normandy, Artley, Bundy, Selmer #100, Vito, Bundy Selmer, Bundy Selmer 577. Thank you so much for your very interesting question concerning “lines” of clarinets, materials of manufacture, and the general implications thereof, vs. Another question I have is what is Ebonite and Resonite? Does that mean that the clarinet is a plastic one? I would appreciate any help you can give me on the above as I am very confused. Is there anything else I should be asking? The above makes/models are all that are available to me not all the descriptions had model numbers. I know to ask for things like: age, cracks, blemishes, reconditioned.
I have been searching the classified ads and auctions over the net. High is also requesting wood instead of plastic. High School recommends (Buffet E-11 and Yamaha YC元4): Normandy, Artley, Bundy, Selmer Model 100, Vito, Blessing, Bundy Selmer, Bundy Selmer 577. Please compare the following with what our local Jr. I hope you can educate me as far as which brands are better than others. Friedland, I have been searching the net for a clarinet and several makes/models keep popping up.
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