Buffet Crampon Festival A Clarinet

Three internationally renowned artists, Jacques Lancelot, Guy Deplus and Michel Arrignon, collaborated to produce the Festival clarinet in 1987. It meets the needs of today's musicians and teachers who are faced with the daunting task of interpreting a wide repertoire of works from Mozart to Boulez.

The Festival belongs to the R13 poly-cylindrical bore family, giving it a focused, ringing and fluid response across all registers. Additionally, because the body of the clarinet is crafted from a very dense cut of African blackwood, the Festival produces a warm and rich tone.

Features include:

-R13 poly-cylindrical bore design
-Unstained premium African blackwood
-Silver plated keys
-Left hand Eb/Ab key
-Metal-capped tenons
-Two barrels
-Leather covered attache case with combination locks

Available in Bb and A models, and in Green LinE material

All of our professional clarinets are hand-selected at either the Buffet Crampon headquarters in the US, or the factory in France. After hand-selection, the instruments receive a complete set-up in our repair shop. This includes: resurfacing tone holes, pad upgrades, pad reseating and leveling, key fitting, and tension adjustments. Once the set-up is complete, our clarinet repair technician will play-test the instrument to ensure everything is in good working order from a repair standpoint, and then one of our clarinetists will play-test it to ensure everything is good from a player's perspective. We do this at no additional charge for you (work is valued at $450).