The difference between clarinet rubber pipe and real wood solid wood clarinet: divided into mahogany and ebony production, generally high-grade musical instruments use African ebony, compared with other rubber pipes, its sound color will be better, the disadvantage is more delicate, easy to crack. Clarinet clarinet: made of rubber wood material, cheaper, sound and sound quality is naturally worse than the solid wood clarinet. Beginners can first buy gum tube to blow, the price is not expensive. Just a personal opinion.