Reviews

The Yamaha YCL-221II is the bass clarinet most school programmes own, and for good reason. It costs around $3,500, has an ABS resin body that survives storage rooms and touring vans, and plays in tune in a register where cheap instruments simply do not. If a student is moving from soprano clarinet to bass, this … Read more

The Buffet E12F sits in an awkward but useful place: above the E11 that most step-up buyers consider, below the R13 that professionals play, and priced around $1,600. It is the instrument teachers recommend when a student has outgrown their first wooden clarinet but is not ready to spend three thousand dollars. Here is what … Read more