Backun Protege

About the Backun Protege

The Protege uses a premium, unstained exotic hardwood body - Grenadilla or cocobolo depending on the finish chosen - over a poly-cylindrical bore, with drop-forged and hardened keywork carrying Backun's triple-strike silver plating, a process the company otherwise reserves for its professional lines. Custom black leather pads and traditional flat springs complete a build that leans on Backun's acoustic research rather than simply scaling down a beginner design.

Its New Traditional barrel and dedicated Backun bell are the same accessory designs the company sells separately to upgrade other brands' clarinets, here built directly into the instrument - a signal that Backun considers barrel and bell tuning central to how a clarinet responds, not an afterthought bolted onto a generic body.

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Sound character of the Backun Protege

Built from solid Grenadilla or cocobolo rather than a composite body, the Protege carries the dense, warm, resonant tone of premium wood clarinets. Backun's own New Traditional barrel and bell - the same parts the company sells separately to upgrade other makers' instruments - are tuned specifically to open up resonance and smooth the response across registers.

Technical data for the Backun Protege

The history of the Backun Protege

Backun, known primarily for premium custom clarinets and aftermarket barrels and bells, brought that acoustic design work down to an intermediate price point with the Protege.