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Author: FluteClarinet55
Date: 2013-06-11 20:40
I've just started learning clarinet this month after playing flute for two years. just checking to see if you have any advice. i.e. common problems for flautists learning clarinet, etc.
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Author: Merlin_Williams
Date: 2013-06-13 15:23
The same advice I'd give a clarinetist studying flute - get a teacher.
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Author: FluteClarinet55
Date: 2013-06-14 13:33
I plan on taking lessons and the lesson teacher is supposed to contact me. I was just looking to see if there were any common issues for flautists learning clarinet.
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Author: Jaysne
Date: 2013-07-03 02:01
Not really. Fingering system is similar, though the octaves are fingered completely different, since the clarinet overblows at a 12th, not the octave.
Obviously you have to learn a new embouchure and get used to reeds.
But no issues that would be specific to a flute player going to clarinet.
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Author: Jaysne
Date: 2013-08-08 01:43
By the way, the correct term is flutist. You're a flautist if you live in Germany.
Some people find Americans saying "flautist" as a sign of pomposity.
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Author: Bret Pimentel
Date: 2013-08-13 00:10
The most common issue in my experience (coming to clarinet from virtually any wind instrument, flute included) is incorrect voicing. To vastly oversimplify: on flute you blow very warm air, on clarinet you blow very cool air. The only good way to make sure you're doing it right is, as mentioned already, to get a qualified teacher.
+1 for "flutist"
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