Vintage Buffet Crampon S1 Bb Clarinet--Silver, Overhauled, Sweeter Than R13!

Description: Welcome to Ashantee Music!Matching Exceptional Students With Quality Instruments One of several professional clarinets we are offering for sale. This one is a Buffet Crampon S1 Bb professional clarinet. The S1 was developed by Buffet as an alternative to the R13, with slightly less-undercut and repositioned tone holes resulting in a sweeter and more centered tone. This one is s/n 204XXX, 1980, one of the best periods in Buffet’s history. It is in excellent condition: wood is a marvelous billet of unstained grenadilla with a nice, tight grain and no chips, cracks, or repairs. Tenons are nice and square with no wobble between joints. This example is silver rather than nickel plated (currently a $520 upgrade) which is about 99.5% intact with little if any wear at all. Just through the shop where it was cleaned, bore oiled, and repadded in the traditional manner with Ferree’s B17 du Jour double-bladder, pressed-felt pads. All new natural tenon corks. Plays very nicely across all registers with an even response and a more focused, gentler tone than the typical R13. Cork grease and key oil are for local pickup only and will not be shipped, but it does include a vintage one-up, three-down Buffet mouthpiece in a C facing on a hard rubber Riffault blank, a silver Buffet cap and ligature, new ProTec microfiber cloth, and new SuperSlick chamois swab. All in the nice Buffet pouchette case with zippered case cover. Certainly the nicest S1 of the very few you’ll find for sale (if any!), and at more than $2,000 less than a new R13!Ashantee Music is a family-owned store serving musicians of all levels for almost twenty years. We started as a worship ministry, and our passion remains equipping young church musicians with more than they could ask or imagine. Please look us up to find out more about who we are and what we do!10% of this sale supports Mulberry International, a ministry which provides food, clothing, shelter, and education in the name of Christ to at-risk children and families in war-torn Ukraine. Please ask us about how to join in this amazing partnership!We are always happy to consider reasonable offers on our auctions.Purchases: We strive to be accurate and detailed in our descriptions. If you have any questions or concerns about a listing, please ask questions prior to bidding. Photographs are considered a binding part of an item description.Shipping: Items are shipped after receipt and clearance of your payment. We try to ship far ahead of the handling time listed in the auction. Note that with international shipping, not all countries provide door-to-door tracking; therefore, buyer assumes full liability for item after leaving the United States.Returns: We have zero unhappy customers, and we have offered hassle-free returns for almost twenty years. Unfortunately, due to rampant abuse of eBay's automated returns, and since PayPal no longer refunds sales fees, we have had to revise our return policy. (1) If you are not satisfied with your purchase, please contact us PRIOR to initiating a return via eBay and allow us to address your concerns. Many items such as clarinets and oboes come out of adjustment during the shipping process, and can be easily tweaked by your local technician. We are happy to talk you through this process. (2) Items may be returned for any reason at your expense within seven days of receipt for a full refund of the purchase price less shipping and eBay fees, which are not refundable. If on receipt we are able to verify the item to be significantly different than described, we will additionally refund original shipping, PayPal fees, and your return shipping to maximum of $30.00. Non-paying Bidders: We reserve the right to relist or otherwise dispose of any item if payment is not received with three days of the auction close.

Price: 1699 USD

Location: Dry Ridge, Kentucky

End Time: 2024-12-11T16:31:09.000Z

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