Store Used Demo – Buffet Festival Clarinet

Buffet Festival Professional Clarinet
The Professional Clarinet Refined!

The Buffet Festival was designed in 1987 to meet the needs of the world’s finest clarinetists. Based on the R13 bore, the Festival offers arguably the best combination of professional performance, features and price in the entire professional clarinet market! The Buffet Festival, like the R13, is also a versatile and customizable platform. Using different barrels and/or bells, a player can transform the Buffet Festival platform in to their perfect, custom clarinet!

Dave Kessler’s Comments about the Buffet Festival
The Buffet Festival Clarinet is my overall favorite Buffet professional clarinet. I find that it possesses the best of the R13 & RC families with the refinement of the Prestige series instruments. It offers a tonal performance that is in line with the R13 family but a more precise response like the RC. Its design is also very bell & barrel friendly allowing players the best “canvas” on which a player can “paint” their sound on. This has lead the Buffet Festival to be our best selling Buffet professional clarinet when players come in to test instruments in our store.

Store Used Demo
This is one of our Store Used Demo Buffet Festival Clarinets that offer a great value! They are used for in store demonstration and may have slight cosmetic blemishes. Still includes all warranties and setup in our shop as well as all the Buffet factory warranties. These instruments are not tested excessively and only under our constant supervision to guarantee that they are treated properly, swabbed out often and cared for in the manner that they deserve!

Professional Setup
Every Buffet Festival clarinet we send out to a customer is not released from us unless it has been completely setup in our shop first. This is because the setup on the Buffet Festival clarinet is of the utmost importance! Sometimes, a clarinet (regardless of who the manufacturer or the price point is) comes in needing 20 minutes of adjustments and then the very next one can require 2 hours!

This is why we perform our setup (in our www.ClarinetRepairs.com ProShop) on your clarinet before delivering it to you. You trust us with your purchase and we want to make sure that you are rewarded by giving you your new Buffet Festival clarinet setup flawlessly!

Bell Color & Bell Ring
You will notice on the Buffet Festival (as well as all of the Buffet clarinets with unstained wood) that the bells will generally have more coloration to them than the bodies. This is normal as Grenadilla is not a pure black wood. Since the bell is cut from a larger piece of wood with a larger cross-section of the wood visible, the bell will tend to show more of this coloration making it look lighter overall than the body joints. Also, Buffet does not plate the lower bell ring on their clarinets, so these are left bare nickel-silver.

Special Notes:
Buffet officially changed their company logo design in 2016 and shortly thereafter, started to use the new logo on their clarinets. Our photos depict the newest production with the current Buffet Logo. For reference, the original Buffet logo on a Festival clarinet can be seen by clicking here. Also, Buffet no longer includes a mouthpiece with their professional clarinet but instead includes an upgraded ligature with fitted cap.

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