Fortified by its elegance and incomparable style, the Tosca clarinet, designed by Michel Arrignon, is the fruit of extensive experience and innovation.

One of Buffet Crampon’s greatest strengths is its capacity for developing new instruments in close cooperation with the best-known musicians of the French school of wind instruments. Musicians they have worked with include Romain Guyot, Pascal Moraguès and Guy Deplus.

Endowed with rich harmony and a unique sonority, the Tosca clarinet’s timbre and fullness are exceptional.

Its ease of response and flexibility and its high level of comfort are qualities that distinguish it from other clarinets, and that constitutes the very essence of this clarinet, part of the R13 bore family.  The Tosca clarinet offers a generous velvet sound rich in warmth and unrivalled in its stability and consistency of intonation. Sets the standard for a new musical aesthetic.  The smoothly shaped design of the new keywork gives a heightened level of comfort and sensation.

This clarinet from the 21st century is the evolutionary result of most advanced materials and manufacturing techniques. Unanimously musicians from all the continents found in this clarinet the answer to their ultimate musical quest.  This clarinet would be an excellent pairing for the Buffet Tosca Bb clarinet.

The Greenline Models are made of a composite material to avoid the problems of cracking or warping that can occur in some wooden instruments in troublesome environments. The robust nature of the material makes the instrument ideal for outside playing or high humidity areas.

• Material: Greenline (95% Grenadilla Wood, 5% Carbon Fiber)
• New designed keywork, featuring sculptured keys that fit comfortably under the fingers
• Undercut tone holes: Improves tone and ease of response.
• Power forged silver plated keywork, pre-plated in copper, finished in silver plate: Long lasting finish and comfortable feel.
• Gore-Tex pads: Are long lasting and create a good seal.
• Bore: New poly-cylindrical bore design
• Metal capped tenons: For stability and a centered tone.
• Additional E^b lever and low F correction keys
• Raised C#/G# tone hole

The Buffet Tosca A clarinet is supplied in a hard carbon-fibre style double case with an internal space for smaller accessories e.g. corkgrease.  Also included is a Buffet silver plated cap and ligature, pull through, cork grease and a sample reed. N.B. A mouthpiece is no longer supplied with this model.

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