Author: zhangray4
Date: 2017-11-05 07:54
I'll be honest here, most students who need A clarinets are those who are in some high level orchestra or those who plan on being music majors since the beginning of high school.
Most high school students do not need A clarinets. They perform in concert bands and marching bands where A clarinet parts are nonexistent. A lot of high schools, mine included, do not have orchestras. For the schools that do, most of them aren't that good, and they won't be playing classical works. Like our music department combined the strings group with some wind players to form a very amateur orchestra (3 violins, 2 violas, 1 cello, 1 bass, 3 flutes, 1 oboe, 2-3 clarinets, no bassoon, 2 trumpets, 4 horns...) and there's no way we would be able to play some Beethoven or Brahms. The strings are mostly beginners and there are not enough of them as well. So we played Lord of the Rings and Forest Gump for our last concert. Definitely no A clarinet part.
There are schools with good orchestras, but not as much. So the demand for A clarinets priced for students are rare. Most people in my band don't know that A clarinets even existed, including my entire clarinet section.
-- Ray Zhang
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