Glory GLY-PBK Professional Ebonite Bb Clarinet with 10 Reeds, Stand, Hard Case, Cleaning Cloth, Cork Grease, Mouthpiece Brush and Pad Brush, Black

Very nice clarinet for the price, sounds great, and came with extra stuff like gloves, cork grease, shoulder strap, a stand, and cleaning brushes. My daughter was excited to receive it and immediately put it together without a problem and played it with no problems.

This arrived very quickly. The instrument works beautifully. My kid has small hands so has some trouble making sure that the holes are fully covered so it doesn't squeek but that has made her a better player I think. Need to keep coaxing her to keep practicing and the more she practices the more confident she gets. The product is just great. The clarinet is like any other clarinet so she does not stand out as different (very important in middle school). Even though her keys are gold and other kids are silver, it's not enough of a difference to make a difference. The case is just fine as well. We have had this for a few months and the case is starting to get frayed a bit but otherwise it's holding up to everyday use very well.

First of all, it's difficult to rate this "instrument" in terms of stars. I'm an experienced clarinetist and rate it 4 stars because it is an exceptional value, and an experienced clarinetist will be able to play this well and will also appreciate the price point.I understand the logic for a beginner who wants to try out a cheap instrument to see if they'll like learning it, but honestly, this instrument is probably too difficult for a beginner to play. An experienced player will know how to make adjustments to embouchure and instrument care in order to get it to play well. If you play another wind instrument and are considering this one, keep this in mind. So this review is for the experienced player, and this clarinet is well suited for its purpose.The instrument does play in tune. You must use the proper barrel that it comes with. Use the shorter barrel for B-flat and the longer one for A. Be prepared to use all the cork grease and more the first time you assemble the instrument. All new clarinets require this, but this one especially. You'll have to grease, insert a bit, take it out, grease some more, reinsert, etc... until all the joints are flush. You will have to use pressure, but don't force it. Forget the included reeds. You can use Rico Royals or better for a major difference in tone and playability. Reeds above 2.5 don't work well with the included mouthpiece. You can use your own mouthpiece of course, and this will make the instrument sound demonstrably better, but then you won't have a cool colored mouthpiece (unless you opted for the black model in which case this is be a good option.) I bought the pink model and will keep the pink mouthpiece because it looks cool, and it plays well enough. As someone mentioned in a previous review, the instrumental does get easier to play the more it is used. It needs about a five minute warm-up every time it is played before it starts to become reasonably playable. Be patient with this.I am calling this a bona-fide instrument because it does actually play music and you can pretty much include yourself as a clarinetist in most situations. You'll have to apply some extra effort to obtain a respectable tone, but if you already play, you'll be able to do this. Again, using your own mouthpiece and reeds will greatly improve this instrument if the color is not an issue for you.We bought this instrument and other similar colorful instruments to create a fun colorful ensemble. It's a lot of fun.

Bought this for my daughter who got placed in JH band at the last minute. Considering she did not want to be in the class to begin with, I did not want to purchase an expensive instrument for just the one year. The quality was fine for what we spent. Her teacher says it's not the greatest sound quality, but plenty fine for JH band. It was easy to assembly and comes in a very nice case. Colr is as shown. I will be donating it to the school after this year.

I played the clarinet in high school. My husband surprised with this gift. It is a tremendous joy to relearn how to play it. It’s been 46 years.

It’s a good clarinet for starters but it has rough spots on certain notes. It’s simple to put together and it still plays nicely. I’d buy better reeds though. I just personally wouldn’t join band because I’m going through it ☹️

When I first got it I really liked the packaging and what it came with it was wrapped nicely but that doesn’t mean that it plays nicely when I first put it together it was very hard and stiff, and I felt like it was gonna break when I started playing it was even worse I couldn’t do a simple G or f it was starting to irritate me so I put it away for the next day now this product came with white gloves that you could wear and I didn’t know what they were meant for so I didn’t play with them the first time the next day, I decided to play with them again, because I wanted to give it a second chance this time I wore the gloves and although the gloves made it a tiny bit better I still couldn’t play certain notes and it was very ridiculous that I had to wear gloves to play the clarinet so I put it away and the next day I started playing again, and it was much better. I was not wearing the gloves this time , but after a couple of minutes of playing, it came very hard so I put it away I I brought it back out when it was my father’s birthday. I was planning to play the happy birthday song to him until I couldn’t play a single note even if I was able to play one, it would sound like a child’s Deas , although I looked at the reviews and even though they were not that good, I decided to give it a shot. The worst mistake I’ve ever made. Do not buy this. It’s very bad and messed up. Please listen to me I think I speak for everyone when I say this is garbage, even if it isn’t bad, at first, it will be eventually I promise