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Re: The Beginning Clarinetist Thread

Author: Green Henry
Date: 2019-04-28 10:37

Martha has a good point!

I started with the Yamaha student model (the plastic one - is it a "250"?), but I upgraded to the next one up in their range, a "450" I think it's called, which is wooden and I think sounds better. I'm thinking of rewarding my recent exam pass by getting a "better" one, but deep down I know that 99% of sounding better will only come from inside.

The Yamahas feel well made and more or less identical to play, though the wooden one felt quite heavy at first.

For an orchestra (as opposed to a wind band) you really need an A clarinet as well. I currently have one on loan from a friend who isn't using it - lucky me, but I feel I should return it and get my own. It's a very old Boosey and Hawkes. Feels very strange at first as it's slightly longer, but I'm used to it now. It's made me think a) what sort I use might not matter so much and b) old ones are OK, maybe I'll try to get one second hand next time.

I also try not to bore my wife and (grown up) kids with how great the clarinet is and how much fun I have / how frustrated I get, and most of the time I succeed in buttoning my lip, but not all the time! I'll always remember hearing tennis player Lindsay Davenport interviewed after she won Wimbledon, and asked what her family thought. She said that they didn't have much to say. After twenty years her family were "over her tennis career". Good old Lindsay!

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