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Buying Guide: Clarinets Buying Guide
Citation: Buying Guide: Clarinets Buying Guide. Musician's Friend, 21 May 2012. <http://www.musiciansfriend.com/browse/article.jsp?mediaId=m710105>
Article Title: Buying Guide: Clarinets Buying Guide
Author: N/A
Instrument: Clarinet
Magazine or Journal Title: Musician's Friend
Summary:
- Purchasing a new Bb clarinet
- Ideal tone is rich, dark, and focused with fundamental and pleasant mix of overtones
- Parts
- Mouthpiece, Barrel, Upper Joint, Lower Joint, and Bell
- Three categories
- Students clarinets, Intermediate-level clarinets, Professional clarinets
- Body material
- Plastic
- Specifically engineered plastic used
- Entry-level instruments
- Grenadilla Wood
- Significant sound and resonance
- Needs proper care to live long life
- Constant air moisture is ideal, nearly impossible
- Green Line Clarinets
- 95% Grenadilla wood, 5% carbon fiber and epoxy resin
- More durable to temperature changes with same great sound
- Keys
- Nickel plated: durable, doesn’t tarnish as easily, shiny luster
- Silver plated: warm, brilliant appearance, nice feel, tarnishes easily
- Bore styles
- Small bore clarinets: easier for students to tune and cover the key holes
- Large bore clarinets: flexible in pitch, produce a big sound often used in jazz
- Rules for wood instruments
- Don’t keep anywhere you wouldn’t keep a baby
- Always store instrument in its case
- Grenadilla clarinets have been broken in before
- Can play them for extended periods
- Week 1: no longer than 15 per day, remove moisture
- Week 2: 30mins per day
- Week 3: 45mins per day
- Week 4: 1 hour+
Article Title: Buying Guide: Clarinets Buying Guide
Author: N/A
Instrument: Clarinet
Magazine or Journal Title: Musician's Friend
Summary:
- Purchasing a new Bb clarinet
- Ideal tone is rich, dark, and focused with fundamental and pleasant mix of overtones
- Parts
- Mouthpiece, Barrel, Upper Joint, Lower Joint, and Bell
- Three categories
- Students clarinets, Intermediate-level clarinets, Professional clarinets
- Body material
- Plastic
- Specifically engineered plastic used
- Entry-level instruments
- Grenadilla Wood
- Significant sound and resonance
- Needs proper care to live long life
- Constant air moisture is ideal, nearly impossible
- Green Line Clarinets
- 95% Grenadilla wood, 5% carbon fiber and epoxy resin
- More durable to temperature changes with same great sound
- Keys
- Nickel plated: durable, doesn’t tarnish as easily, shiny luster
- Silver plated: warm, brilliant appearance, nice feel, tarnishes easily
- Bore styles
- Small bore clarinets: easier for students to tune and cover the key holes
- Large bore clarinets: flexible in pitch, produce a big sound often used in jazz
- Rules for wood instruments
- Don’t keep anywhere you wouldn’t keep a baby
- Always store instrument in its case
- Grenadilla clarinets have been broken in before
- Can play them for extended periods
- Week 1: no longer than 15 per day, remove moisture
- Week 2: 30mins per day
- Week 3: 45mins per day
- Week 4: 1 hour+
Your First Clarinet
Citation: Your First Clarinet. Sax & Woodwind... and Brass. <http://www.saxandwoodwind.com.au/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=71_184>
Article Title: Your First Clarinet
Author: N/A
Instrument: Clarinet
Magazine or Journal Title: Sax & Woodwind... and Brass
Summary:
- Buying student clarinet
- Spend at least $200-$400 for a second hand instrument
- Spend $500-$700 for a new one
- Student clarinets most always have plastic body
- Nickel or silver plated keys
- What too look for
- Responsive
- Plays in tune
- Good quality sound
- Durable
- Can also rely on:
- Reputation of the maker
- Price
- Recommendations from the teacher/ more experienced players
- How well the instrument retains its price in the second-hand market
- How often adjustments/repairs are needed
- New Clarinet Recommendations
- Yamaha YCL250: Build and sound quality is excellent, suitable for students
- Jupiter 631N: Solid well-sounding student instrument, good price
- Buffet B12: Slightly mellower sound
- Schreiber 6009S: Slightly mellower sound
- Leblanc LB320: newly added student clarinet
- Second Hand Recommendations
- Yamaha CL100
- Armstrong student clarinet
- Selmer student clarinet
- Buescher Aristocrat student clarinet
- Boosey & Hawkes student clarinet
- Vito student clarinet
- Check all second-hand instruments for black, mould, spit pads, etc.
- Avoid
- Fake Buffet B12 and Yamaha flutes
- Much too cheap
- Different instrument cases
- Be Educated on appearance of genuine articles and a common price
- Try not to buy out of country, may cause additional problems or risks
Article Title: Your First Clarinet
Author: N/A
Instrument: Clarinet
Magazine or Journal Title: Sax & Woodwind... and Brass
Summary:
- Buying student clarinet
- Spend at least $200-$400 for a second hand instrument
- Spend $500-$700 for a new one
- Student clarinets most always have plastic body
- Nickel or silver plated keys
- What too look for
- Responsive
- Plays in tune
- Good quality sound
- Durable
- Can also rely on:
- Reputation of the maker
- Price
- Recommendations from the teacher/ more experienced players
- How well the instrument retains its price in the second-hand market
- How often adjustments/repairs are needed
- New Clarinet Recommendations
- Yamaha YCL250: Build and sound quality is excellent, suitable for students
- Jupiter 631N: Solid well-sounding student instrument, good price
- Buffet B12: Slightly mellower sound
- Schreiber 6009S: Slightly mellower sound
- Leblanc LB320: newly added student clarinet
- Second Hand Recommendations
- Yamaha CL100
- Armstrong student clarinet
- Selmer student clarinet
- Buescher Aristocrat student clarinet
- Boosey & Hawkes student clarinet
- Vito student clarinet
- Check all second-hand instruments for black, mould, spit pads, etc.
- Avoid
- Fake Buffet B12 and Yamaha flutes
- Much too cheap
- Different instrument cases
- Be Educated on appearance of genuine articles and a common price
- Try not to buy out of country, may cause additional problems or risks
What They're Buying
Citation: What they're buying. Music Trades, Apr. 2010, p74.
Article Title: What They're Buying
Author: N/A
Instrument: Clarinet
Magazine or Journal Title: Music Trades
Summary:
- Breakdown of the School Market
- How much is spent on different instruments
- By instrument type
- Clarinets
- Bb Clarinets under $800- 113,000 units
- Bb Clarinets $800-$1500- 15,300 units
- Bb Clarinets Over $1500- 6,100 units
- A Clarinets- 700 units
- Eb Soprano Clarinets- 400 units
- Alto Clarinets- 1,200 units
- Bass Clarinets- 700 units
- Other Clarinets- 2,300 units
- Total Clarinets- 139700 units
- Total Woodwind Instruments- 359,300 units
- Clarinets make up over 1/3 of Woodwinds purchased
Article Title: What They're Buying
Author: N/A
Instrument: Clarinet
Magazine or Journal Title: Music Trades
Summary:
- Breakdown of the School Market
- How much is spent on different instruments
- By instrument type
- Clarinets
- Bb Clarinets under $800- 113,000 units
- Bb Clarinets $800-$1500- 15,300 units
- Bb Clarinets Over $1500- 6,100 units
- A Clarinets- 700 units
- Eb Soprano Clarinets- 400 units
- Alto Clarinets- 1,200 units
- Bass Clarinets- 700 units
- Other Clarinets- 2,300 units
- Total Clarinets- 139700 units
- Total Woodwind Instruments- 359,300 units
- Clarinets make up over 1/3 of Woodwinds purchased