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New Way to Buy a Brand NEW Buffet Clarinet!
We all love to visit
showrooms and try out dozens of clarinets. However, this option is becoming
more difficult every day. Travel to such places costs time and money, and the
selection is often much smaller than it used to be.
The other alternative,
buying a clarinet by internet or catalog, is frustratingly distant. Heres a
different approach:
Below I
profile NEW BUFFET clarinets from
my stock. Each one is set up and ready for you to play in concert or
rehearsal.
I show you the
actual instrument, identified by serial number. I tell you what I like about
it and why I selected it for sale to my very discriminating customer base.
If you are interested, you can then purchase it
(on a 10-day trial) or call/email me with questions on further specifics.
Illinois residents pay 8% Illinois State Sales
Tax
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Personally selected clarinets *
I
travel to Buffet USA
Headquarters in Jacksonville,
FL, where I personally select
the best clarinets I can find. In a recent trip, I tested over 51
clarinets, over a period of 6 hours, picking only the best of the bunch. I
usually pick no more than 10% of the clarinets I try.
My
selection criteria:
1.
Beautiful
tone - even and smooth throughout the range of the instrument
2.
Superior
response
3.
Outstanding
intonation
4.
The
very best grenadilla wood, free of imperfections.
5.
The
best hand-finishing
See
below for the descriptions of some of these clarinets. The ones featured
below are all set up and ready to ship!
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Some clarinets in very high demand might come directly from Florida, as they
might otherwise ship to another dealer before I could try them.
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Customer Quotes:
The Clarinet has checked out beautifully, just as you
described. I appreciate the service you offer in pre-testing this
instrument from your professional standing, so that we were able to easily find
what we were looking for. We will gladly recommend you to all who are
looking for a solid instrument. All the best. T. R. Toronto, Canada.
I needed a new R13 Bb and did not
have the time to travel to audition a gaggle of horns for selection. So I
took Walter Grabner at his word about "a new way to purchase
Buffets." OK, I know that the service is offered by others, and I assume
they are very good, but I had prior contacts with Walt and liked his service
and style of doing business. So I placed a call and within days I had two
marvelous instruments from which to pick.
I liked both, yet each had slightly different characteristics, as
expected, and as indicated by Walter ahead of their arrival.
.. A week later I had my teacher try them.
He recently went through the process of selecting from a very reputable
dealer, so he knew what he wanted to find for me. Both instruments were
deemed "great". One was a winner, based mostly on how I sounded on
it. The other was clearly great, too. It would have been a keeper for my
teacher had he needed one. I am pleased to recommend Walter Grabner for the
purchase of new Buffets. A.S., PA.
Buffet R13 Bb Silver plated keys #630089
Extremely Fast and
Positive Response!
I love playing on this horn. If you
are looking for very fast, positive, and even response throughout the entire range,
this clarinet is for you. Also, the intonation, using the supplied barrel and
one of my CXZ_K13* mouthpieces, is just dead-on with the tuner. Someone is
going to be very happy with this clarinet. Will it be you?
Price
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$3285
Buffet R13 Bb Silver plated keys #627694
Excellent
Orchestral Horn!
This clarinet has a warm, dark tone,
perfect for those very slow soft expressive passages. It also has plenty of
bite in the tone when you really need it. Projection is no problem with this
instrument. Great for that principal clarinet chair or your next big
audition!
Price
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$3285
Buffet Festival Bb Serial #635401
Superbly Rich and
Dark Tone!
Out on Trial
This Festival is
has a lovely, rich tone quality, very even throughout all the registers.
Coupled with the utmost precision of attack, this clarinet has a combination
that cant be beat. It feels as big and rich as clarinets costing thousands
more.
Price
..$3488
Buffet Festival Bb Serial #633230
Great Soloists
Clarinet!
Out on Trial
If you have followed these pages at
all, you can probably tell I am quite partial to the Festival clarinet. Whats
not to like, with unstained Grenadilla, the alternate Eb/Ab key, metal tenon
caps, and two barrels (66 and 65 mm)?
This particular clarinet is a fine
instrument, with crisp, clear attacks, a full rich, dark tone, and excellent
intonation. What I like best about
this clarinet is the clarity and precision with which it speaks an
excellent soloists instrument!
Price
..$3488
Buffet 1193 Bass Clarinet - Serial # H46632
Balance High and
Low Register!
Out on Trial
This bass clarinet
can boom in the low register, when you need it to. It can also play the
slightest pianissimo in the upper clarion seconds later. Buffet is making
great bass clarinets and this is yet another example of how good a bass
clarinet can be!
Attacks are easy in
any register, and repeated tonguing passages quick and clear. This clarinet
has a big, beautiful, dark tone quality with a clarity that is clear and
precise. Intonation is just excellent.
Try this one, it is
an audition winning horn!
Available
immediately.
Price
.$9387
plus shipping
Tosca Bb - Serial # 634212
Great warm Tone
with Projection!
This is an
excellent Tosca clarinet. The tone is warm, dark, and has great projection.
Intonation is
extremely good throughout all registers. The response is unbelievable, just touch
it and it responds. If you are thinking about purchasing a Tosca, you cant
miss with this one.
Price
..$6178
plus shipping
Buffet R13 Bb nickel keys - Serial # 620772
Brilliant!
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Full, rich warm tone with absolutely brilliant projection. This is
an excellent R13 in every way and is great fun to play.
Price
.$2905 plus shipping
Buffet R13 A nickel keys - Serial # 628148
Everything you
want in an R13 A!
This one is Sold, call me if you want one like it!
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This
clarinet has everything you want in an A clarinet. It has that beautiful
warm R13 tone. The intonation is excellent and the clarinet is a real pleasure
to play. I selected it from a batch of R13s due to its consistency of tone
throughout all the registers.
Price
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.$3526
plus shipping
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