LeBlanc Vito Review

“While the LeBlanc Vito is made of plastic, it is a...”

Written on: 24/09/2004 by wooma667 (1 review written)

Good Points
Cheap
Excellent beginner clarinet

Bad Points
Made of plastic
Plastic sounding tone

General Comments
While the LeBlanc Vito is made of plastic, it is a great instrument. Perfect for the beginner, and in my opinion quite suitable for playing right up to and even including letters. Assuming you got a new mouthpiece (a Selmer C95 would be ideal), and one of those Rovner ligatures, which would get rid of that cheap plastic-ish sound. The Vito is great because it handles like a much, much more expensive instrument and sounds like a much more expensive instrument (if you can spare a couple of hundred for the mouthpiece and ligature). Put simply, everything included you can get a secondhand Vito with new mouthpiece and lig. for maybe 8 or $900. The Buffet R13 costs more like $3500, and you'll sound the same. So your clarinet won't look as flash, you think anyone in the audience can tell the difference?