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| genre = Wind Musical instrument manufacturers
| foundation = 1825
| key_people = Jerôme Perrod, François Billecard, Jean-Baptiste Bouvier
| location_city = [[Mantes-la-Ville]]
| location_country = France
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| homepage = {{URL|http://buffet-crampon.com/}}
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[[File:BC bcl obda tromp-h.jpg|thumb|240px|Basset clarinet, oboe d’amored'amore, highpiccolo trumpet]]
[[File:BC Euphonium.jpg|thumb|240px|Euphonium]]
[[File:BC Bariton Sax.jpg|thumb|150px|Baritone saxophone]]
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* '''Buffet Crampon:''' [[Clarinet]]s with a French fingering system (Boehm), namely (almost) the entire clarinet family in tunings from high E{{flat}} to contralto, also [[oboe]]s, [[English horn]]s, [[bassoon]]s (with French fingering and drilling) and [[saxophone]]s
* '''Rigoutat:''' Oboes, English horns, [[Oboe d’amored'amore|Oboesoboes d’amored'amore]] and baritone oboes
* '''Parmenon:''' [[transverse flute]]s
* '''Verne Q. Powell:''' Flutes and [[piccolo]]s
* '''[[Antoine Courtois]]:''' [[trombone]]s, [[flugelhorn|fugelhorns]]s and saxhorns[[saxhorn]]s
* '''Besson:''' [[trumpet]]s, trombones, [[cornet]]s, [[alto horn]]s, [[tenor horn]]s, [[baritone horn]]s, Euphoniumseuphoniums and [[Tuba|Tubestubas]] in E{{flat}} and B{{flat}}
'''BC Deutschland''' also has six brands under which the following instruments are manufactured.<ref>look External links "German brands"</ref>
* '''B&S:''' Trumpets, trombones, cornets, flugelhorns, tenor horns, baritone horns and tubas
* '''Hans Hoyer:''' Simple horns, [[double horn]]s, [[triple horn]]s, [[descant horn]]s and [[Wagner tuba]]s
* '''[[Melton Meinl Weston]]:''' flugelhorns, baritone and tenor horns, [[bass trumpet]]s, tubas and [[cimbasso]]s
* '''J.Scherzer:''' B{{flat}} and C trumpets and high trumpets
* '''W. Schreiber:''' Clarinets in B{{flat}} and C (one model) with German fingering (Oehler), bassoons and [[contrabassoon]]s
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* in '''Markneukirchen:''' all brass instruments of the Buffet Crampon Group are manufactured in the two factories there, with the exception of the Besson student instruments and the "high end" instruments of the Melton Meinl Weston brand, as well as student clarinets of the Buffet Crampon brand and all instruments of the brands W.Schreiber and J. Keilwerth.
* in '''Geretsried''': near Munich: the instruments of the brand Melton Meinl Weston (R&D center for all brass instruments of the group)
* in '''PekingBeijing''': brass instruments for beginners
* in '''Shanghai:''' woodwind instruments for beginners
* in '''Maynard''': Massachusetts: VQPowell flutes
BC has sales companies in the United States, Canada, Japan and the Netherlands. It also has six showrooms: in Paris, Geretsried near Munich, Amsterdam, New YorkJacksonville, Tokyo and Beijing.<ref name = "welt" />
== History ==
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In 1877 BC acquired the Evette & Schaeffer Company and began to use that name as their instrument brand. In 1887 BC obtained a patent for a mechanism to control an extra key on an extended saxophone bell, extending the lower range from B to B{{music|b}}. In 1908 BC began exporting instruments to the US. In 1910 BC introduced the ''Apogee'' premium model saxophone, which had innovative keywork features that were later adapted by other manufacturers. In 1918 BC began marketing their premium line instruments under their own name, while marketing lower grade instruments variously under the Evette & Schaeffer and Evette brands. During the 1930s BC began outsourcing Evette & Schaeffer instruments to other manufacturers.<ref name="saxpics">{{cite web |last1=Hales |first1=Pete |title=Buffet Instrument Models |url=http://saxpics.com/?v=man&manID=2 |website=Saxpics.com |access-date=23 December 2018}}</ref>
[[File:Logo Buffet Group.jpgsvg|thumb|130px|2005: Logo of the new company Buffet Group Wind Instruments S.A.S.]]
In 1950, BC developed its famous ''R13'' clarinet, an extremely popular professional-level clarinet. The company also began production of the ''Dynaction'' model saxophones that year, which would evolve into the ''Super Dynaction'' (1957) and the highly regarded ''S series'' (1973) models.<ref name="saxpics" /> Buffet also became the leading distributor of student-grade instruments in Europe, marketing French and Italian made saxophones under their Evette & Schaeffer brand. During the late 1970s and 1980s, the company's position in the student saxophone market collapsed in the face of competition from [[Yamaha Corporation|Yamaha]], who offered higher quality and more up-to-date instruments, and lower cost East German, Czech, and Asian manufacturers. Their collapse in the student market accompanied a deteriorating position in the market for professional saxophones. Buffet left the saxophone market in the mid-1980s. In 2008 Buffet re-entered the saxophone market with their ''400'' model, sourced from China.<ref name="Howard">{{cite web |last1=Howard |first1=Stephen |title=Review, Buffet 400 Alto Saxophone |url=http://www.shwoodwind.co.uk/Reviews/Saxes/Alto/buffet_400_alto.htm |website=shwoodwinds.co.uk |access-date=24 December 2018}}</ref>
In 1981, BC joined [[Boosey & Hawkes]], which sold the French company to [[The Music Group]] in 2003. Two years later BC was bought by a French group
and was given the company name BUFFET Group Wind Instruments SAS, but continues to sell its products under the Buffet Crampon brand.
In 2006 Buffet Group acquired two brass instrument manufacturers, Antoine Courtois Paris and [[Besson (music company)|Besson]]. In 2008 Buffet Group acquired the [[Leblanc (musical instrument manufacturer)|Leblanc]] clarinet factory in [[La Couture-Boussey]], Département of Eure, [[Haute-Normandie]] in France.
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=== 2010 to the beginning of 2021 ===
In 2010 the newly founded Buffet Crampon Deutschland GmbH, Markneukirchen, acquired the production facility in Markneukirchen and the brands W. Schreiber and Julius Keilwerth from the insolvency of Schreiber & Keilwerth GmbH, after the insolvency administrator had reduced the workforce in Markneukirchen from 252 in the previous months Employees had reduced to 134.<ref>Martin Hofmann: [https://www.musiker-board.de/threads/buffet-crampon-uebernimmt-schreiber-keilwerth.402436/ ''Buffet Crampon übernimmt Schreiber & Keilwerth.''] 11. August 2010. Abgerufen amRetrieved 14 October 2019.</ref> The company manufactured clarinets of German systems and bassoons under the brand name W. Schreiber and saxophones under the brand name J. Keilwerth. In 2012, BC Germany also takes over B&S GmbH, which also produces in Markneukirchen, the leading European manufacturer of brass instruments with 250 employees and the brands B&S, Hans Hoyer, Melton, Meinl, Weston and J. Scherzer and integrates them into the company,<ref name="Blechblasinstrumente">{{cite web | title=Buffet Group übernimmt B&S | website=Blechblasinstrumente | url=http://www.showroom-geretsried.de/showroom-blechblasintrumente-newsmeldung/items/buffet-group-uebernimmt-bs.html | language=de | access-date=8 March 2021 | archive-date=April 10, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410220329/http://www.showroom-geretsried.de/showroom-blechblasintrumente-newsmeldung/items/buffet-group-uebernimmt-bs.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> whose workforce will grow to more than 400 employees (470 at the beginning of 2021).<ref name="oberland-jobs.de 2021">{{cite web | title=Jobs von Buffet Crampon Deutschland GmbH | website=oberland-jobs.de | date=3 March 2021 | url=https://oberland-jobs.de/arbeitgeber/buffet-crampon-deutschland-gmbh-51260 | language=de | access-date=8 March 2021}}</ref> With these two most important acquisitions in the company's history, the Buffet Group can almost double its sales and has since taken a leading position not only in the field of woodwind instruments, but also brass instruments.<ref name = "GK">Gisbert König, ''Eine Reise durch die deutsche Klarinettenbaulandschaft'' (''A journey through the German clarinet making landscape'') in 'rohrblatt - die Zeitschrift für Oboe, Klarinette, Saxophon und Fagott (the magazine for oboe, clarinet, saxophone and bassoon) 38 (2023), vol. 3 p. 07-117, [[:File:GisbertKoenig Reise.pdf|PDF-file]], here p. 107-109 Buffet Crampon Deutschland]</ref>
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In 2012, Fondations Capital France SAS becomes shareholder in Buffet Group SAS. Fondation Capital is a subsidiary of Trail, a European private-equity company with registered office in Paris.▼
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▲In 2012, Fondations{{not a typo |Fond|ations}} Capital France SAS becomes shareholder in Buffet Group SAS. Fondation{{not a typo |Fond|ations}} Capital is a subsidiary of Trail, a European private-equity company with registered office in Paris.
In 2014, Jérôme Perrod was appointed as the new CEO of the Buffet Group.
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|caption1 = 3 clarinets in the high to the beginning of the middle register: E{{flat}} clarinet, B{{flat}} clarinet and basset clarinet
|caption2 = 5 clarinets in the middle and low registers: alto clarinet, basset horn, short and long bass clarinet, contralto clarinet
|footer = No matching standards in the two pictures! (The basset clarinet is slightly smaller than the alto clarinet.)}}
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| Prodige || ABS resin ||Newest student model
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| 1180 || GrenadilGrenadilla || Student model bass cl.
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| RC || Yes || Evolved from the R13 model with distinctive barrel and bell shape; developed in 1974 with the assistance of the luthier Robert Carrée, for whom the model is named<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buffet-crampon.com/en/our-story/|title=Our Story - Buffet Crampon|website=www.buffet-crampon.com|access-date=12 April 2018}}</ref>
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| Vintage || No || Replaced the S1; closer to the original 1950's1950s R13 bore design
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| Festival || Yes || Has R13 bore with denser wood; register key is 1 mm higher than on a standard R13; has additional alternate left-hand E{{flat}}/A{{flat}} lever
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| R13 Prestige || YesNo || Made from highest quality unstained grenadilla wood; has additional alternate left-hand E{{flat}}/A{{flat}} lever
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| RC Prestige || Yes || Smaller bore than R13 model; more popular in Europe; has additional alternate left-hand E{{flat}}/A{{flat}} lever
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* {{official website|http://www.buffet-crampon.com/}}
* [https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/jerome-perrod Jerome Perrod] NAMM Oral History Program Interview (2015)
* [https://www.buffetcrampongroup.com/de/ Buffet Crampon Group]. The term "Group" refers to all the companies that include the term "Buffet Crampon" in their company name, i.e. Buffet Crampon SAS in Mantes-la-Ville and its subsidiaries in Germany, China, Japan, the USAUS and the Netherlands.
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