Welcome!

...to Vic Brincat's Antique and Vintage Clarinets pages.

In  addition to being  an amateur clarinet player, I collect and restore  vintage clarinets as a hobby. I put this WEB site together merely to document the work I've done and to provide a means of cataloging my clarinets and post picture of them in various stages of restoration. 

The pages of this WEB site contain the clarinets I have restored and now own. Most of these instruments where purchased as "basket cases"  needing extensive repairs or were intended to be used as spare parts. They range from the  mid 1800s to the1990s. With the exception of  the Simple System clarinets, I play each clarinet on a regular basis.

  This is my collection of clarinets, which I house in a 1936  cabinet/desk that was made in Toronto. Not shown in the cabinet is a mid-1800s Boehm System Bb Buffet and a Simple System, C-clarinet made by Beavon.Ball made in the late 1800s.

Current List of my clarinets:

1.     Buffet Crampon  Mid-1800s, Boehm System (Bb), integrated barrel and upper  section. Click HERE for some pictures of this unique clarinet prior to its restoration.

2.    Buffet Crampon,  1897, Boehm System (Bb),  with wrap-around register key

3.    Buffet Crampon,  1906, Boehm System (Bb),  This is a High Pitch Instrument

4.     Buffet Crampon,  1914  Boehm System Low Pitch (A). (Wrap-around register key) ("G" in picture above).

5.    Buffet Crampon, 1916,  Boehm System (Bb). ("C" in picture above)

6.    Buffet Crampon,  1924, Boehm System (Bb),  with wrap-around register key

7.    Buffet Crampon, 1926, Boehm System with extra trill key. ("A" in picture above)

8.    Buffet Crampon, Model R13, 1996 Boehm System (Bb).  ("F" in picture above)

9.    Thibouville Freres 1930s (?), Boehm System (Bb). ("B" in picture above)

10.    Henry Gunckel,  late 1800s- early 1900s. Boehm System (Bb). Wrap-around register key. ("E" in picture above)

11.    R.M. Malerne Artiste, 1975, Boehm System (Bb) ("D" in picture above)

12.    Jean Barre, Est.  late 1940s(?),  Boehm System (Bb) ("H" in picture above. This clarinet was sold in December, 2003)

13.     Rene Dumont, 1930s(?), Boehm System (Bb) ("I" in picture above). 

14.    Unknown Make, Late 1800s, Simple System. Belonged to my father and has been in my    family for 70 years

15.    Henry Dubois,  Est. 1950s,  Boehm System (Bb)  

16.    Jean Marbeau Late 1920s, Boehm System (Bb) (Wrap-around register key)

17.    Jerome Thibouville Lamy,  Est. late 1800s,  Simple System C clarinet

This clarinet belongs to a nice lady friend of mine who is a devoted clarinet player and lives on the Western cost of the United States. Click HERE for some pictures of Sue Raycraft's Ball.Beavon C clarinet in various stages of restoration.