Your first Professional Bb Clarinet 

A like clarinets that have a nice dark tone. They sound really nice to me.

Could do with more videos like this, a lovely bit of clarinet playing.

Great presence and control!

I really like the way you play. Or maybe I should say, the way you HEAR. You have a beautiful ear. I listen with you, and enter a hypnotic state. Your musicality is so lovely. Best wishes in your endeavours.

Liked the R-13 by far the best. I like to adjust reed and mouthpiece to a somewhat more free blowing clarinet. Actually my favourite is the Buffet Festival.

I play an old Selmer Centered Tone from the late 50’s. I’ve owned Buffet’s , but they generally don’t make great Jazz horns. I like your sound on the Selmer !

nice bit of artie shaw! learning this peice at the moment! ;)

buffet r-13 truly amazing!!

I play with a Patricola Virtuose clarinet, is fantastic, but I love the RC, is incredible to.

I like playing on my new Bb R13, it is very adaptable and sounds great in many different scenarios. Wood is not as high quality as the older R13s but is still a very fine horn.

Thank you for your video and best wishes for your business. They R13 is the best selling clarinet worldwide. It was designed by Robert Carre whose last design was the RC clarinet The R 13 has great projection Unfortunately Peter Eaton has stopped his production of clarinets but if you can pick up a secondhand one you will not be sorry. Personally it is the best clarinet I've ever played. - God bless you and yourBusiness - Bill - UK

I have a Yamaha YCL-550AL Allegro. It's an intermediate model, granadilla wood, nickel and silver keys, with some gold plating. Its low register is very beautiful. My clarinet teacher finds that too (I've been playing 2 years). I tried today at Twigg, in Montreal, 5 different clarinets. An E11, E12F, R13, and 1 professional model from selmer and 1 intermediate model from backun. I can tell you that only the R13 was an upgrade from the YCL-550AL. The key system was better suited for me. The 550al is better suited for thin fingers. I had more space on all Buffet clarinets. The Selmer was similar (forgot the model sorry) to my 550al (tight space). The R13 had an amazing feel to it. Great sound, great mecanism, and the alternate fingering on the high Bb and mid Eb (which is the same fingering, minus the register key) was producing a sound incredibly close in quality as the usual fingering. Also, the middle Bb/C trill side keys were producing the finest bad-sound-fingering-used-only-for-trills I ever heard... My Yamaha 550 cannot produce that trill with a decent sound... anyway... I'm looking around the house to see if I have 4695$ laying around somewhere... under a sofa maybe? I want an R13! 😁

You play each horn differently can’t really compare like that.

I have a Backun Q-Series and it’s been better for me than all the other clarinets I’ve tried.

My advice to any amateur clarinetist of intermediate or better playing skill is to buy a second-hand clarinet. I play a Selmer Series 10 from the early 1970s which I bought from a music shop. The owner of the shop, a clarinet player, had serviced the instrument, and took my old clarinet as a trade-in for a fair price. So, for $750 Canadian, I got a very nice sounding clarinet. I have played it for 15 years and never regretted buying it. Of course, I did play the clarinet, using my own professional mouthpiece, before buying it.

I like the R13 sound. Really brighter! I never try this one... Because in Europe we play 442 diapason. And if i want to play this model,i have to put an 65mm barrel. And i am afraid that it change the centered tone or justess I don't know...

I have RC,verry good clarinet

I know a talent when I see one, this Ed guy is gonna he a star if you ask me

Ah ! Ackerman Bilk ! Nice ! I like the RC better than the 13. Closer to the Selmer. Brahms? I’ve played some Yamaha’s too. Thanks

what moutipiece, and leed numcer ? please

Hi from France, is it possible to know the price for this super instrumentl?

Edward Cross you are a truly "gifted" player - I put gifted in quotes because your superb tone and musicality were undoubtedly hard won with hours and hours of playing and practice - so in that sense your ability is not so much a "gift" but your natural talent and voice beyond all the hard work may well be : ) I don't know enough about the Yamaha CSG lll but I was wondering if it might be a little more difficult to play (more resistance etc)for an intermediate player what with the different bore and shorter barrel - BEAUTIFUL sounding instrument though and it has me wondering if it is a NOTICEABLE and truly worthwhile step up from the CSVR. Happy playing and all the best for your career!

how do manage people to play so well and still look good? like when i give it my best people call the ambulance

Get the Buffet Tradition; it is like the R13 on steroids and has a super dark tone that will not go bright even if you let go of your embouchre. Also that wasn't the best R13 out there so please if you didn't like the R13 tone then realize that the Tradition is an upgrade in every way from it. It actually sounds more like the RC than the R13 when i think about it :)

Very interesting. What struck me were the "flying" elbows, a seemingly unstable platform?

hello! what is the main difference between CSG ans CSVR? bravo for your presentation about all models .

I like verey mutch R13, i see in this video it's have a powerful tone, but verry consistent, anyway, my opinion is if you are a good player, you play with anything.

I am looking at a lot of reviews and can't decide which clarinet to buy. I have been looking at the Jupiter jcl700 or the buffet prodige. I would appreciate any advice as I'm really stuck... thanks in advance

The buffet RC doesn't have a conical bore. In fact all clarinets have cylindrical bore. Its bore is a combination of poly-cylindrical bores (like the R13).

Thank you! good video. What kind of mouthpiece each instrument~?

No LeBlanc’s ? Maybe they don’t make them any more. Backun? Rossi ?

Well! He's truly fit, isn't he?

Music is an art, an interpretation of the music being played is different for everyone. When one preforms a solo piece the clarinetist is expressing there interpretation and feeling of the piece. I've play with vibrato for decades and have had many teachers both in a group setting and private lessons who are mixed on the subject. I play my art, my music with my interpretation and expression as I feel it best be interpreted. If we all played the same piece the same way it would be a very boring form of art.

why do you leak so much while playing?

The best clarinet i have played is a Ridenour clarinet NO its not plastic but hard rubber and you know what they dosent crack Warp or are afected by tempratur or bad wether and they last forever and stay in tune the terribly flat low F and sharp right hand clarion C and D are things are gone what make a clarinet professional is not the name that is stamped on the bell or berrel nor the material that its made of but actualy how it performs tuning tone collor and shape price of the instrument im gona geth ride of my yamaha and The france that begins with B sorry for my bad inglish

I hate it when people say instruments are like genders stereotypes for example flute clarinet are women tuba trombone for men. Which I don’t agree with all musical instruments are for everybody. No matter your race religion gender, etc

Not impressed

What annoying constant vibrato - Not acceptable.