The metal trim on some of the pieces are loose and can come off if you wanted. The mouthpiece shows some light wear around the beak but the rails look great. The mouthpiece also has a signature etched in (See pic). Paris E11 ClarinetBuffet E 11 wood clarinet, silver keys, buffet case, just serviced, West Germany matching serials. Both the French samsung syncmaster 723n driver German Evettes were stamped with the Evette buffet crampon e11 serial number.(December) Buffet Crampon acquired Besson. Mannufacturing moved to France (Courtois factory in Amboise) and Germany (B&S factory in Markneukirchen). The record is much less complete after 1936.īuffet Clarinet Made In Germany Driver German Evettes1000 series instruments made in India, otherwise all were made at B&S.

Instruments manufactured after 1936 range in serial number from 1350-3600. Thanks for posting firebladejedi, the B&H clarinets seem to get a little less love than they deserve, I think.UK players seems more keen on them due to the marvellous reputation for quality they had.The log book shows the serial numbers jumping around quite a bit for the Selmer/Adolphe Sax saxophones. Mine came with a Selmer mth pce and a B+H 1010 and I bought a Vandoren 5JB to play around with.I haven't played for the main part of 25 years and its starting to come back to me. I recently had it re padded and re corked and it makes a nice tone.I have been playing with various mouth pieces and reeds today to see what I like best. But comparable with any other pro level clarinet I guess.I have a 35 year old wooden Edgeware which is the intermediate level, and I like it. Very nice - I would love to pick up one of these if I could ever excuse the cost, here they are still priced high.

Tuning was slightly adversely effected but not direly.I play modern Leblanc and Yamaha Eb and Bb so the spread, open smooth tone of this 1010 is very different.All other clarinets I've owned/played have had a more narrow core, focussed tone.I'm curious to know if this is the big bore sound or just the so-called British clarinet sound that Boosey was famous for?Any 1010 or other B&H players here?V. My Vandoren 5RV sounded not too different on it honestly.

German buffet clarinet serial numbers