Walter Grabner 991 Wildwood Lane Highland Park, IL 60035 847.266.8644 I personally play test and select every clarinet that I sell. I have LOVELY, new, personally-selected clarinets including a FANTASTIC Tosca Bb Clarinet Tosca A Clarinet And a SUPERB RC Prestige Eb Clarinet. Call now, these horns ARE going fast.

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A 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.” Here’s a different approach:

Below I profile NEW BUFFET clarinets from my “stock,” all of which I have personally selected. 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/E-mail me with questions on further specifics.

I personally select every clarinet I sell

I travel to Buffet USA Headquarters in Jacksonville, FL, where I personally select the best clarinets I can find. In my last trip, I tested over 51 clarinets, over a period of 6 hours, picking only the best of the bunch.

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.

See below for the descriptions of some of these clarinets. The ones featured below are all set up and ready to ship!

I will soon (late July, early August) be making another trip to Buffet Headquarters in Florida to pick out another batch of “Personally Selected” clarinets. If you have a special request please let me know soon.

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.

RC Prestige Eb Greenline

World’s best Eb – now in Greenline!

Available Immediately

A superb Eb clarinet. If you have tried an RC Prestige Eb, you know they are the “best of the best”. I wish that Buffet had manufactured an Eb this good back when I was playing eefer professionally! On any RC Prestige Eb I have tried, I have been able to play altissimo F#, G, and even G# effortlessly.

This one is made from the Greenline material – very possibly the material of the future for all artist clarinets.

RC Prestige Eb Greenline……………………………………………………………………..Price $5,395.

R13 A Nickel - Serial # 57904X

I couldn’t put it down.

OUT On TRIAL!

When I tested this clarinet, it came alive in my hands. I just didn’t want to put it down, so I selected it for my stock.

It has a warm, rich tone quality and great response.

Here’s one thing very special about this clarinet: many A clarinets are, to be blunt, just not as well in tune as Bb clarinets. This particular A clarinet has very good, stable intonation and is very easy to play in tune. You could play this clarinet in any professional orchestra in the world.

R13 A Nickel-plated keys…………………………………………..

R13 Bb Silver - Serial # 579693

That dark and lovely R13 sound!

OUT On TRIAL!

This one is out on trial but I have several more available and ready to try out. Call now!

A classic R13. It has clear, smooth, dark tone and easy projection. The intonation is excellent. Add a 65 mm Buffet/Muncy barrel and you compare favorably to a Festival or even a Prestige.

R13 Bb Silver-plated keys………………………………………..

Tosca Bb - Serial # 577093

Available Immediately!

Play the World’s Best Clarinet/ Experience beauty of tone, great control, and superb projection. Be the best clarinetists you can be.

I selected this clarinet from a group of ten Tosca Bb clarinets. It has that superb “Tosca projection” that no other brand/model of clarinet seems to possess.

A quick little story:

I have recently become a “Tosca” convert. Years ago, I recognized that the Tosca was an excellent clarinet, but didn’t understand the real differences.

Recently, I played a Tosca at an orchestra rehearsal in our concert hall. It was there that I really “got it.” In the hall, I realized what a superb clarinet it is, with clear warm tone, the best intonation I have ever heard in a clarinet, and projection like I couldn’t believe.

I asked the conductor what he thought of the Tosca, and he said two words: “Buy it.”

So I did.

The Tosca clarinet comes with silver plated keys, Gore-Tex pads, beautiful unstained grenadilla wood, two barrels, and the alternate Eb/Ab key.

Buffet Tosca Bb………………………………………………………

Tosca A - Serial # 575337

Available Immediately!

Superb in every way! A perfect match with the Tosca clarinet listed above.

A perfect mate for the Tosca Bb above. Play tested and recommended by a TWO world class clarinetists.

This is flat out a superb clarinet, in every way.

The Tosca clarinet comes with silver-plated keys, Gore-Tex pads, beautiful unstained grenadilla wood, two barrels, and the alternate Eb/Ab key.

Buffet Tosca A……………………………………………………………..$6195 plus shipping

For more information, please call me at 847-266-8644, or e-mail grabnerwg@aol.com.