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Clarinet in Carpenter's Song

Author: rick77
Date: 2017-10-11 01:52

A band I perform with had to play the Carpenters beautiful song "We've Only Just Begun" for a museum fund raiser gig. The intro of the song sounded like a flute to me when I heard it over the band PA at rehearsal so I grabbed my flute and played the intro and outro on flute.

When I got home I looked the song up on youtube and in the video a guy is holding a clarinet and it shows him playing the outro or actually pan miming that particular part.

A fellow clarinetist told me "that is not a clarinet in that song but rather a synthesizer". I'm actually a saxophonist who also plays flute and clarinet and the other guy is a dedicated clarinetist so now I question whether or not the recording of the song actually has a clarinet playing that part or maybe it's some old keyboard playing the part.

Take a listen to this and see if you think it's a clarinet or an organ or ancient analog synthesizer. Was it a clarinet on the recording or is the guy in the video just miming for show?

Here's the youtube link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__VQX2Xn7tI

[ link fixed - GBK ]

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