Instrument details

A highly colorful clarinet !

In creating the Vintage clarinet, Buffet Crampon especially wanted to satisfy those musicians who wish to find the same features and sound they had with their 1950's R13 clarinet.

Today the Vintage has charmed many clarinettists the world over. They choose the Vintage for its fluid, focused tone, its homogeneity in all registers, and its easy response.The Vintage clarinet has a special bore designed to provide a previously unreached level of flexibility and remarkable tuning with a warmth in all registers.

The G# / C# tone holes have been raised. The Vintage clarinet comes with both a cylindrical and a double conical barrel.

Instrument specifications

Instrument characteristics

• Finest quality Grenadilla wood Beautiful wood and tone colour
• Silver plated keys High quality long lasting finish
• Silver plated adjustable thumb rest Adjustable for optimum comfort
• Changes in tone hole placement and elongation of bell Evenness of timbre and resistance in all registers. Tuning ratios are improved.
• Undercut tone holes Improves tone and faster response
• Two barrels Allows player to experiment with sound