Author: GoodWinds ★2017
Date: 2011-03-22 18:17
I'm taking up the clarinet again after a decades-long hiatus; I never hated it, but I was one of 30 in my middle-school band, when I switched to oboe (I was drooling just looking at the pictures on the wall...).
As a pit orchestra 'doubler', I appreciate the clarinet in many ways, and I have had the pleasure of hearing really good clarinetists in concert and working with them personally.
I appreciate the alternate fingerings too, but generally I find clarinet harder, not easier, to finger than the oboe. This has much to do I'm sure with the fact that my fingers are numb some of the time due to a disease process, and the challenge of planning fingerings ahead (or remembering them from practice) when my cognitive skills have been affected too.
But you can't substitute the sound of one for the sound of the other, and that part I really like.
And if ANYBODY out there can recommend a good clarinet mouthpiece for a 'majority' oboist, I am open to suggestions. (Low budget, though).
GoodWinds
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