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The Buffet Crampon Elite was probably unique and adventurous clarinet ever build. Designed for and with Michel Arignon, Buffet went completely new ways and opened a Pandora box of possibilities. ,br>
The clarinet was made out of the finest African blackwood and turned to a very slim body, to reduce weight and improve response. To improve the intonation and to get the different registered better in tune, they prolonged many tone-holes to compensate for the short tone-hole chimneys, caused by the thin body.

To achieve an even lower weight, all metal-rings had been replaced by Carbone fiber rings, to give the n- now very thin wooden receivers- enough stability to hold.

The Elite clarinet had during their existence gone through several design changes. Some Bb clarinets had an extended lower-joint, to get the E/B and F/C better in tune. Some of these instruments had a connection mechanism from the register-key all the way down to a low E correction key. This prolonged lower -joint made it impossible to put it in anything but the original case. A and Bb had the same length. Strangely the A was never equipped with this mechanism.

The pads had resonators, which helped to increase the response as well.

The thin body required a completely new key design, which resulted in a very high price, at the time.

The Elite is probably the fastest responding clarinet ever build. Unfortunately, because of its lightweight, responsible for this response, players often got the impression, that the sound was not big enough and the instrument wouldn?t carry well enough. But this is just a personal impression a player will experience. The lower mass results in less vigorous vibrations on his teeth and the player will consequently experience a smaller sound. But that?s not the case for the audience.
At Lohff and Pfeiffer we always kept a large number of Elite clarinets in stock. Buffet provided us long after the official deadline with inst
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