Author: Loliver
Date: 2011-03-23 15:03
People shouldn't go super rage against clarinets- they suffer the same problem as the violins and flutes, that everyone seems to be able to play it, but few get very good at it, unlike oboe, where people only seem to take it up if they are genuinely interested in doing it well.
I don't know if this is typical, but in my band we saw one or two oboes a year, and they were always of high quality, such as grade 7 or 8. Compared to the clarinet section, where perhaps one or two people were grade 7 or above, and the rest were around grade 4 or 5. Even so, the other first clarinet had such shrill tone in the upper registers...
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