Clarinet Recommendations
Student Clarinets
Professional Clarinets
Do not buy new intermediate model clarinets. They depreciate terribly, and are a complete waste of money.
Acrylic Student Mouthpieces ($40 or less)
Less-expensive Hard Rubber Mouthpieces ($200 or less)
More-Expensive Hard Rubber Mouthpieces ($250 to $1000+)
Synthetic 3D-printed Mouthpieces
- Backun Alpha
- Buffet Prodige
- Yamaha YCL-200AD
- Yamaha YCL-255
Professional Clarinets
- Yamaha CSVR
- Buffet R13
- Backun Model Q
- Uebel Advantage
Do not buy new intermediate model clarinets. They depreciate terribly, and are a complete waste of money.
Acrylic Student Mouthpieces ($40 or less)
- Clark Fobes Debut
- Bradford Behn Overture
- Gennusa Mezzo
Less-expensive Hard Rubber Mouthpieces ($200 or less)
- Vandoren M15, M30D, BD5
- Epic-CNC.com Prescott (close or medium)
- Backun/Hawkins Vocalise R or G
- Clark Fobes Nova CF+ or 3L
- Gennusa "Excellente"
- Wesley Rice Intermediate
More-Expensive Hard Rubber Mouthpieces ($250 to $1000+)
- Bradford Behn SONO or EPIC
- Clark Fobes 10K
- Ramón Wodkowski
- Wesley Rice Model K or C
- there are many other makers out there...
Synthetic 3D-printed Mouthpieces
- Walter Grabner