Buffet C RC Prestige Clarinet – NEW w/ Silver Keys

Buffet Crampon RC Prestige C Clarinet

The Buffet Crampon RC Prestige C Clarinet brings the warmth, resonance, and refined character of Buffet Crampon’s celebrated RC family to the distinctive voice of the C clarinet. Designed for professional performance, it combines the clarity and immediacy of a C clarinet with the depth, balance, and tonal richness associated with the RC Prestige.

The C clarinet occupies a unique place within the clarinet family. Its naturally clear and direct voice has long been associated with Classical and orchestral repertoire, offering a different color and response from the more familiar B♭ and A clarinets. The RC Prestige enhances that character with a sophisticated acoustic design that provides both projection and tonal substance.

Crafted from carefully selected African grenadilla wood, the RC Prestige C is designed to produce a resonant, centered sound throughout its range. Its response is balanced and accessible, allowing the player to retain the characteristic brilliance of the C clarinet while maintaining warmth, body, and flexibility.

Professional appointments include 17 silver-plated keys and 6 rings, an adjustable thumb rest, precision-finished keywork, and metal-capped tenons that reinforce the wooden body at critical joint areas. The nickel-silver keys are cold-forged, copper-plated, and silver-plated before being carefully fitted and regulated.

Designed for 440/442 Hz, the RC Prestige C Clarinet includes both 45.5mm and 47.5mm barrels, providing additional flexibility for pitch, response, and varying performance conditions.

For the professional clarinetist, orchestral player, university professor, or specialist looking to add a true C clarinet to their collection, the RC Prestige offers an exceptional combination of clarity, warmth, projection, balance, and traditional French craftsmanship.

Its distinctive voice makes it particularly compelling for repertoire originally conceived for C clarinet, allowing the player to perform on the instrument and tonal color intended rather than relying solely on transposition.

The Copeland Difference

C clarinets can be particularly revealing instruments, where small differences in regulation, pad seating, venting, and setup can have a noticeable effect on response and intonation.

Every Buffet Crampon RC Prestige C Clarinet purchased from Copeland Clarinets is carefully evaluated and professionally set up in our shop before delivery. Pad seating, regulation, spring tension, response, intonation, and overall playability are addressed so the instrument arrives prepared for serious performance.

Our goal is to ensure that your RC Prestige C delivers the clarity and distinctive character of the C clarinet while retaining the warmth, refinement, and responsive feel expected from a professional Buffet Crampon instrument.