Stephen Fox Custom 'Benade NX' Model Clarinet FULL OVERHAUL EXTRAORDINARY

Here is an EXTRAORDINARY Stephen Fox Benade NX custom built clarinet. 

Stephen Fox has long been known as a master clarinet maker and exceptional craftsman and this is an original clarinet built by him from the bottom up. This is a Benade NX model instrument built to the innovations developed by noted acoustician Arthur Benade and is an exceptional instrument. Plays with a warm sound that is consistent through out all registers with excellent intonation. 

This instrument does have the original Benade fingering system, but it is extremely similar to the Boehm system and only has a few different alternate fingerings. This instrument is in superior condition. It shows very few signs of having been played, but it hadn't been played for a while when we received it so we had our clarinet specialist do a full overhaul on this instrument. It is now playing beautifully. 

Please note that this model will only play in tune with a large bore clarinet mouthpiece - we are including a Pillinger custom copy of a Boosey and Hawkes 10-10 mouthpiece which matches beautifully with this instrument. What an amazing horn!

Provenance: The Robert Howe collection. Dr. Robert Howe is a well known researcher and historian of woodwind instruments and spent a lifetime collecting rare and unique instruments. We are privileged to offer instruments from this collection for sale.

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