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Re: Clarinet & Trumpet same time frame

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2018-12-17 21:11

For YEARS I would have said the embouchures are too different to make things workable. But I have of late begun to feel that the clarinet embouchure is not nearly the sort of obsession that I had made it.

Yes, with the clarinet the lower lip sits rather dormant under the reed (not really but comparatively yes) and with trumpet you are manipulating the upper and lower lip in tandem to achieve the appropriately pitched "buzz" to get the right partial you need. If you asked about french horn I would say definitely NOT, but trumpet is not as critical.

You do need to consider that they are completely different in all respects and the work load on you would be considerable. There are doublers out there that play all the woodwinds to include flute, oboe, sax and clarinet, but crossing over to brass is particularly daunting.

I actually did try this a year into playing clarinet and thankfully gave it up. Though I don't encourage this idea, I wouldn't say it's impossible.

Now that I am thinking about it, I attended a small traveling circus in the wilds of Vermont many many years ago, and the "band" was one guy who played literally every instrument to include trumpet, sax flute and accordion. I thought he was as much a genius as I thought he was nuts.

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

Post Edited (2018-12-17 23:18)

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