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.

2024 Redesign
The Buffet Festival went through a slight redesign in 2024. The fundamental core of the instrument remained but slight changes were made to improve intonation in the lower register. The new models are the best Festival’s yet! The logo coloring also changed to be a bit more of a “rose gold” color.

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.

Multiple Financing Options Available!

We have a myriad of different financing options available for your new instrument! From affordable monthly payments over a longer period of time to other options that can include 0% Interest or Deferred Interest options, we can help find a way to make the instrument of your dreams become the instrument of your reality! Give us a call!