ALL LEBLANC CLARINETS SHARE CERTAIN COMMON PLAYING CHARACTERISTICS.Playing features vary in tuning ratios, tonal flexibility, depth, and tone colour determined by the developmental and artistic needs of the clarinetist.

DIRECT TONE EMISSION: This feature results in instantaneous speaking of the clarinet tone at all dynamic levels (especially piano), and the feeling that one need not labour with air and embouchure to be "in the heart of the sound". By comparison, other clarinets seem reticent in their speaking qualities and lack the immediate presence and clarity of sound found in Leblanc clarinets.

BALANCED BLOWING RESISTANCE: This means that the right hand and the left hand blow with the same resistance. This feature offers the clarinetist unmatched evenness in tone colour and blowing resistance, which raises the clarinet to new levels of ease in tone production, effortlessly smooth legato, security of response and dependable articulation. Other brands of clarinets market acoustical designs that cause one hand to blow with greater resistance than the other. This sort of design results in a clarinet that changes in tone colour and response ffrom register to register, and from hand to hand, requiring the player to "create the evenness" by means of embouchre/air pressure exchange. The even tone colour and repsonse inherent in the acoustical design of Leblanc clarinets eliminates much of the physical effort required in controlling response and tone on other brands of clarinets.

STABILITY IN TIMBRE, TONAL SHAPE, AND TUNING: When we say that Leblanc clarinets are stable in timbre we simply mean that the tone colour remains at louder dynamics as it is at the softer dynamics. For instance, when the clarinet is played at louder dynamic levels, the tone easily becomes bright, thin, harsh, and distorted. This is especially true of the upper register. This brightness creates an edgy, metallic quality to the tone that is unpleasant to most listener's ears. This is not true of Leblanc clarinets. The higher tones of the Leblancs remain round and full with no metallic edge-even at the loudest dynamic levels.
Again, Leblanc clarinets are stable in tuning. Clarinets usually play sharper at softer dynamics and flatter at louder dynamics. While it is not possible to eliminate the pitch variation present as dynamics change, Leblanc clarinets minimise the pitch fluctuations in extremes, enabling the player to play softer without playing sharper and louder without playing as flat as other brands of clarinets.

STABILITY IN TONAL SHAPE is achievedby building a certain "HOLD" in the clarinet tone, especially for the upper register tones. By HOLD we are referring to the fact that Leblanc clarinets maintain the shape and refined tonal definition, even at the loudest dynamic level; much like a balloon, which when blown up gets larger, but keeps the same basic shape as when it was small. This feature, combined with PITCH STABILITY, allows the player more embouchure flexibility and relaxation, virtually abrogating the need for the player to "grab" at the sound to keep it from shattering or spreading.

All of these features, DIRECT TONE EMISSION, BALANCED BLOWING RESISTANCE, AND PITCH, TIMBRE, AND SHAPE STABILITY, give Leblanc clarinets PLAYABILITY-the experience of unmatched expressive freedom, playing ease, and security, that has compelled many artists who have been long-time devotees of other brands of clarinets to switch to the new Leblanc clarinets!!!