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Re: Clarinets & College

Author: NBeaty
Date: 2010-09-18 00:59

I don't think a performance major in college should be without a set of clarinets (Bb\A). To think that someone could graduate with a performance degree and not have the appropriate instrument to play some of our greatest works (Mozart Concerto\Quintet, Brahms Trio\Quintet) and countless others, not to mention orchestral music, is unsettling.

That being said, I don't think most students entering college have to have the A clarinet the moment they enter their first year and perhaps they should wait for their college teacher to help select that instrument. The better you are as a player, the better the instrument that you pick will be and the better it will serve you. Many players choose an instrument based on its ability to compensate for their own fundamental issues as players, which is not advisable. Once those fundamentals are fixed, sometimes the player no longer likes the instrument they had chosen!

The Bb and A should be both R13 or better. Comparable professional models from other brands should be tried as well.

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