Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2018-12-19 03:52
Many many years ago, I was a clarinetist with The Band of HM Lifeguards (part of the Household Cavalry).
Apart from playing the clarinet on horseback, I, and most of the other clarinetists were expected to perform on the Eb Cavalry Trumpet, a beast of an instrument to play.
At one stage at least one of our solo clarinetists was also a member of the team of State Trumpeters.
I never made the State "A" Team, but for a year was a member of the "B" team and stationed to support The LG armoured regiment (and by default most other regiments for miles around !) then deployed in Germany.
For this time I actually played more trumpet than clarinet.
I was uncomfortable with the idea of this double at first, but later came to realise that, if anything, it actually strengthened and improved my (double lip) clarinet embouchure.
John Denman, once our LG solo clarinetist, and who spent many years playing in the USA, trod exactly the same clarinet/ trumpet doubling path just a few years before I joined up. It didn't seem to do his clarinet playing any harm.
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