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Re: Books about Learning clarinet

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-08-03 16:23

I do hope that there are some resources for you but I can't think of any on the nuts and bolts questions you ask. For instance the age one can start clarinet has more to do with size of fingers vs. size of holes (or even the comfortable span of the fingers). I have a student for example whose fingertips were barely big enough to cover the diameter of the tone holes at first - so that would be a limiting factor.

If I recall correctly, Henry Questa, a fine clarinet player with the Lawrence Welk band, featured his young son on a show of the cast's progeny. Questa got around the size thing by having his son play an Eb clarinet (more diminutive in size).

The literature most common is exercise manuals followed by the far rarer books on artistry and history (Keith Stein's "Art of Clarinet Playing" and Jack Brymer's "The Clarinet").

Perhaps you can find (though I don't know how to go about it) more esoteric literature in University and Conservatory libraries where students need to create them for masters and doctorate programs.

................Paul Aviles

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