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 Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: DavidBlumberg 
Date:   2007-08-21 10:03

Fun!

http://quizfarm.com/run.php/Quiz?quiz_id=3948

Apparently, I'm an oboist - clarinet was only 25% for me ......... and the lowest [whoa]

http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com


 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Danny Boy 
Date:   2007-08-21 10:21

Trombonist?? TROMBONIST??

50% clarinet, gah, I demand a refund of al of those years practise...



 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: kilo 
Date:   2007-08-21 10:36

87% bassoon ... bassoon???



 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: tictactux 2017
Date:   2007-08-21 10:40

72% French horn, 58% clarinet (2nd). 0% trumpet.

Okay, it's a start.

--
Ben

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2007-08-21 12:27

Oh right, I'm an oboist. Goes with the job I suppose!

Oboe 92%

trombone 83% (like the way they put that in lower case!)
Percussion 83%

Flute 75%

Tuba 67%
French Horn 67%

Viola 58%
Bassoon 58%
Cello 58%

Clarinet 50%
String Bass 50%

Trumpet 25%

Violin 17%

So I'm only half a clarinettist! Well, I did study both clarinet and double bass when I was at college, so 50% clarinet and 50% bass makes 100% of me.

Oh, did I mention I play sax as well? Or should I just keep that quiet!

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

The opinions I express are my own.

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Philip Caron 
Date:   2007-08-21 12:48

Viola, 92%. Test obviously designed by a percussionist.

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: OpusII 
Date:   2007-08-21 12:57

I'm going for a refund also for years of clarinet lessons..
Obviously I would be better off playing the French Horn!
(PS every Horn player would advice me NOT to play Horn, my lips just aren't designed for this instrument)

French Horn
92%
Bassoon
92%
Clarinet
83%
Cello
75%
Tuba
50%
Violin
50%
Oboe
50%
trombone
42%
Percussion
42%
Flute
42%
Viola
33%
Trumpet
33%
String Bass
25%

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Danny Boy 
Date:   2007-08-21 13:07

Here's an idea...how about an en masse law suit against our first teachers...

"You taught me the wrong instrument!!"



 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: EuGeneSee 
Date:   2007-08-21 13:13

Hmmm? 83% bassoon, 75% t-bone & Oboe, 67% F Horn & Tuba, . . . etc. . . down to lowest . . . 25% clarinet! So that's why I am so lazy and lousy on the clarinet!!

Inasmuch as I own a bassoon, t-bone, oboe, f-horn, & tuba, I would be better off practicing with one or more of them? Eu

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: David Spiegelthal 2017
Date:   2007-08-21 13:21

I'm also an oboist according to the quiz. Hmmmm............

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: EuGeneSee 
Date:   2007-08-21 13:25

David, I won't send you any more clarinets to fix . . . ready for a bassoon?
And Chris, since you are an oboe guy, no more piccolos! Eu

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Tobin 
Date:   2007-08-21 13:27

David Blumberg!

We've got a lot in common!

I'm an Oboist, and clarinet 25%.

Now I need to get my wife to try this...

James

Gnothi Seauton

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Bassie 
Date:   2007-08-21 13:39

Viola?!

Well, I guess they've always had my sympathy... :-D

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: ChrisArcand 
Date:   2007-08-21 14:05

"Test obviously designed by a percussionist."

Haha! So true.

33% clarinet.

CA

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: pewd 
Date:   2007-08-21 14:15

wow, oboe at the top. clarinet, 17%

- Paul Dods
Dallas, Texas

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: EuGeneSee 
Date:   2007-08-21 14:25

Is there some previously unknown great truth emerging here . . . on a clarinet BB most of the folks seem to be scoring the worst on their instrument of choice. Is this masochism? ES

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2007-08-21 14:28

"And Chris, since you are an oboe guy, no more piccolos! Eu"

Although I have certainly upped my experience in rebuilding piccolos in the last few months, both simple system and Boehms - as well as losing faith in the postal service (both UK and US) in the process!

I suppose my 75% flute score has to include piccolo in there too.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

The opinions I express are my own.

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: ElBlufer 
Date:   2007-08-21 15:11

92% oboe....and 0% clarinet!!!!! How did I manage to do that?

My Setup:
R13 Clarinet (Ridenour Lyrique as my backup/marching instrument)
Walter Grabner K11 mouthpiece
Rico Reserve 3.5's
Bonade ligature

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: OmarHo 
Date:   2007-08-21 15:19

Tuba

100%

Oboe < That's what I got

100%

Cello

75%

trombone

75%

French Horn

75%

Violin

58%

Viola

50%

String Bass

50%

Trumpet

50%

Flute

42%

Bassoon

33%

Clarinet

25%

Percussion

8%

I guess we'd all be better off learning the oboe now =P

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: GeorgeL 2017
Date:   2007-08-21 15:20

After reading the first couple of questions I randomly filled out the remainder of the test - and it came out 83% clarinet. The next closest instrument was under 60%. For scientific purposes I should try it again to see if the result would change, but I'm retired and no longer into acting like I do something useful.

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2007-08-21 15:23

"I guess we'd all be better off learning the oboe now =P"

Well, it'll keep us lot pretty busy making and finishing them if demand goes through the roof!

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

The opinions I express are my own.

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Brenda Siewert 
Date:   2007-08-21 15:30

oboe. hmm. Clarinet only scored 33%. Well, whatayaknow.

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Dano 
Date:   2007-08-21 15:58

I am a Tuba player at heart. I have always wanted to pretend I could handle a Tuba! (I knew there was a reason for naming one of my Mastiffs, Tuba!)



 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: DavidBlumberg 
Date:   2007-08-21 16:20

Well, ya know as is with most school tests if you have 2 arms and can raise them to shoulder level, you qualify, and are suggested to play a string instrument.......

http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com


 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: sfalexi 
Date:   2007-08-21 16:29

87% Flute player, with a second place being 67% French Horn. And at the bottom, dead last, with 25%, Clarinet. Very fitting . . . . . !!!!

Alexi

US Army Japan Band

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Jack Kissinger 
Date:   2007-08-21 16:58

100% Oboe [rotate]
42% Clarinet

I went back and redid the test with purely random answers (didn't even read the questions). Came out in a tie for viola and clarinet @ 75%.

I wonder what that means?

Best regards,
jnk

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: susieray 
Date:   2007-08-21 17:13


Apparently I'm a tuba.


Tuba 83%
French Horn 75%
Viola 75%
Bassoon 67%
Clarinet 58%
Cello 50%
Oboe 50%
String Bass 42%
Percussion 42%
Flute 33%
trombone 25%
Violin 8%
Trumpet 0%


Sue

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Ski 
Date:   2007-08-21 17:23

Oboe, 92%
Clarinet, 33%

Since I can barely play the clarinets anyway, maybe it's time to sell them and get an oboe. Hmmm...

Oh look, I see in today's paper that Walmart is having a store-wide sale on hunting items. Do you think I could get a head-start practicing my new embouchure on a duck call?

[running for cover ]



Post Edited (2007-08-21 17:25)

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: voggorb 
Date:   2007-08-21 17:24

100% oboe, 33% clarinet

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Garret 
Date:   2007-08-21 17:26

Ooh--
92% Viola--but I can't read tenor clef!!!

75% Clarinet--I guess this explains why I can only play 75% of the notes! And all this time I thought it was from playing on unbalanced reeds.

17% String bass--good thing this one's low on my list--it doesn't fit underneath the airplane seat (although nowdays even a clarinet doesn't)

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: DavidBlumberg 
Date:   2007-08-21 17:26

"I went back and redid the test with purely random answers (didn't even read the questions). Came out in a tie for viola and clarinet @ 75%.

I wonder what that means? "
---------------------

Means that the test is completely unscientific.

But we all knew that  :)

The questions are "interesting". Maybe if one of them had been "are you neurotic?" not many of us would have ended up scoring high on oboe.

http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com


 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: RodRubber 
Date:   2007-08-21 17:42

im nly 8% clarinet, but 100% t-bone. I maybe should be the conductor, but i don't want to go back to the dark side.

Love you all



 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: C2thew 
Date:   2007-08-21 17:53

85% oboe. hmmm maybe i should switch.

this is a crazy game. it's making people switch instruments just from this survey.

heheh

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. they are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive as railroads lead to Boston to New York
-Walden; Henry Thoreau

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: John O'Janpa 
Date:   2007-08-21 18:33

Another oboe! 50% clarinet

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Dano 
Date:   2007-08-21 18:41

If you all check out the other "tests" on the site, you will see just how unscientific the whole thing is. Some of these sound like they were put together by 10 yr. olds. Since I actually play clarinet and don't play tuba, I would go out on a limb and call myself 100% clarinetist not a tubaist.



 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Alseg 
Date:   2007-08-21 19:03

Well, I guess that my result means that I will be switching from mpingo to Yugoslavian Mountain Maple (Bassoon)


Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-





 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: pelo_ensortijado 
Date:   2007-08-21 20:02

i got 83% on the OBOE, viola and french horn.
clarinet down at 25%!!

hum hum.. seems like allmost all of us became oboeists. strange.. :P



 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: ABerry 
Date:   2007-08-21 20:10

I guess I learned the correct instrument....It's a good thing too, I can't afford to come down with the G.A.S. for another intrument...

Clarinet 75%

Viola 67%

Oboe 50%

Tuba 42%

Flute 42%

French Horn 42%

trombone 25%

Percussion 25%

String Bass 25%

Cello 25%

Bassoon 25%

Trumpet 17%

Violin 8%


Allan



 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: DavidBlumberg 
Date:   2007-08-21 20:26

I'm maybe thinking that the creator of the test is an oboist who's needing recruits..........  ;)

http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com


 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: William 
Date:   2007-08-21 20:45

TUBA

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: tictactux 2017
Date:   2007-08-21 20:58

> I'm maybe thinking that the creator of the test is an oboist who's needing
> recruits..........

Nah, I'm always getting French Horn, how many times I make this test. Clarinet is always second, followed by <drum roll> Oboe. [wink]

--
Ben

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: butterflymusic 
Date:   2007-08-21 22:08

Tuba. 100% Gooooooo tubas.

Yeah.



 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Mark Charette 
Date:   2007-08-21 22:17

Cute:

Bassoon 100%
trombone 92%
French Horn 92%
Tuba 75%
Oboe 75%
Cello 75%
Flute 67%
Violin 58%
String Bass 58%
Trumpet 50%
Viola 33%
Percussion 33%
Clarinet 0%

 :)

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: claritoot26 
Date:   2007-08-21 22:55

Hey, everybody, here's my scores. I never really wanted to play viola, although the sound is cool and my mom plays. I did want to play french horn, but my parents thought it was too big for me to carry to school when I was 8. Next up is clarinet...

To Rod_Rubber: I've seen you're conducting, and I'd advise you to stick to clarinet! :-)

Viola 83%
French Horn 75%
Clarinet 67%
Cello 67%
trombone 58%
Tuba 50%
Oboe 50%
Trumpet 42%
Violin 42%
Flute 42%
Bassoon 33%
String Bass 33%
Percussion 17%

Lori

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Ski 
Date:   2007-08-21 23:13

Quote:

To Rod_Rubber: I've seen you're conducting, and I'd advise you to stick to clarinet! :-)


If his name is any indication of the kind of baton he'll be using, I'd probably suggest the same...

[grin]

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Alseg 
Date:   2007-08-21 23:18

I retook the test twice
Answering as if I were Attila the Hun......it came out trumpet.
Next I answered as if I were a shrinking violet.......clarinet was the result.

Whoever devised the test must think that we are shy, insecure, conformists.


Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-





 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: clarinetist04 
Date:   2007-08-22 00:09

"Whoever devised the test must think that we are shy, insecure, conformists."

Doesn't describe any clarinetists I know!

Yeah, conspicuous that the majority of us are oboes (me too) and that only one person is a clarinet.

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Marshall Jiang 
Date:   2007-08-22 02:37

huh, i should play the violin.. 100%!

Violin

100%

Oboe

92%

Trumpet

83%

trombone

83%

French Horn

83%

Clarinet

67%

String Bass

67%

Tuba

58%

Flute

58%

Cello

58%

Bassoon

58%

Percussion

42%

Viola

25%

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: johng 2017
Date:   2007-08-22 03:19

I lied on every question and should be a french horn player.
Hmmmmm

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: ashemas 
Date:   2007-08-22 03:45

Oboe and French horn tied...people always say I "look like a french horn player". Clarinet was the second woodwind.

Oboe
83%
French Horn
83%
Bassoon
67%
trombone
67%
Clarinet
67%
Cello
67%
Viola
67%
String Bass
58%
Violin
50%
Flute
42%
Tuba
33%
Trumpet
25%
Percussion
17%

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: marzi 
Date:   2007-08-22 04:33

98% viola, shoot, well our orchestra needs more viola anyways....

50% clarinet. if it means i would have to be a shrinking violet(how do violets shrink anyway, don;'t they wilt?) forget about it.

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: buedsma 
Date:   2007-08-22 10:06

clarinet as the lowest result - the truth is out there somewhere


Trombone. This just means you dont fit anywhere else.

trombone

83%

String Bass

75%

Oboe

67%

Viola

67%

Cello

67%

French Horn

50%

Tuba

42%

Trumpet

42%

Violin

25%

Percussion

25%

Bassoon

25%

Clarinet

17%

Flute

17%

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Ken Shaw 2017
Date:   2007-08-22 13:24

That was fun. Here are my scores:

Cello 92%

Flute 83%

trombone 83%

Tuba 83%

Bassoon 83%

String Bass 75%

Oboe 75%

French Horn 58%

Clarinet 50%

Viola 42%

Trumpet 33%

Percussion 25%

Since I actually was a flute and double bass player and am now a recorder player who is also trying to learn the hautboy, I found the results interesting. I wouldn't mind playing cello and have actually tried the viola da gamba.

Wonder how Ken would come out......

Best regards,
Mary Vinquist (Mrs. Ken)

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Mike Clarinet 
Date:   2007-08-22 13:35

I came out a violinist! Strange because I learned the violin for 3 yrs at junior school. I did very badly - I never worked out which end to blow down. (And my clarinet playing has been rather more successful)

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2007-08-22 14:39

"I came out a violinist! Strange because I learned the violin for 3 yrs at junior school. I did very badly - I never worked out which end to blow down. (And my clarinet playing has been rather more successful)"

What? Played with a bow?

On the Mary Shelley episode of 'The Mark Steel Lectures' he did a scenario of when Frankenstein's monster met the blind man that played the flute - the blind man was then seen playing a drum with two flutes as sticks!

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

The opinions I express are my own.

Post Edited (2007-08-22 14:44)

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Mike Clarinet 
Date:   2007-08-22 15:12


AAAH !!!

That's where I went wrong. BOW. not BLOW.

Cheers, Chris

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2007-08-22 15:23

Thats what happens when you skim read the instructions.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

The opinions I express are my own.

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Kruzi 
Date:   2007-08-22 16:50

Clarinet at 83%, wow:-)
According to the test, them clarinet players seem to be humble folks;-)

Greetings,
Kruzi

Take what you`ve got and make the best of it!


 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Mrs_gekko 
Date:   2007-08-23 01:04

I scored 100% on both Bassoon & Cello.

Donna

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: JessKateDD 
Date:   2007-08-23 01:54

Add me to the list of people who scored lowest on clarinet:

Bassoon 83%
Tuba 75%
Oboe 75%
trombone 67%
Cello 67%
French Horn 58%
String Bass 58%
Trumpet 58%
Percussion 50%
Violin 42%
Flute 42%
Viola 42%
Clarinet 25%

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Aequore 
Date:   2007-08-23 06:45



100% French Horn,

67% Oboe


33% Clarinet,


ahhh, that sucks! :) im a Clarinetist I SWEAR!...[grin]
the good thing is the oboe percentage, oboe is my second instrument at hand..and i've always wanted to play the french horn...maybe it describes the instrument you have wanted to play but never got a chance??...could that be it??

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: kuteclar 
Date:   2007-08-23 23:26

I came out cello - and although I love that answer....followed by flute and bassoon....

what about clarinet???

I am wondering - has anyone figured out what "type" of person and characteristics "make" you a clarinetist according to this test? I tried to make it come out clarinet, and the highest I scored so far was 33%. Maybe if we can unlock this mystery, we'll know it's not just our reeds!

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Marshall Jiang 
Date:   2007-08-24 00:26

Most clarinets are perfectionist...

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: kuteclar 
Date:   2007-08-24 01:14

haha - perfectionist, I knew that! Are we born this way or does the instrument turn us?!

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Neal Raskin 
Date:   2007-08-24 02:51

i am having an identity crisis... 83% Oboe, 83% Horn ... ... ... ...

only 33% clarinet... ... ... ... well, at least i won't have to complain about reeds anymore ;-)

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: skygardener 
Date:   2007-08-24 05:44

Trombone, Violin and Viola, 92%
Clarinet 25%
I always wanted to play strings anyway! :P

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2007-08-24 08:35

If clarinettists are perfectionists, then why do they play the least perfect instrument?

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

The opinions I express are my own.

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Katrina 
Date:   2007-08-24 13:48

My husband scored higher on clarinet than I did and he's not a musician at all!

He had 50% and I had something like 25%.

My highest was trombone. TROMBONE!!! I never ever wanted to play trombone...and having tried both trumpet and tuba, I can say with assurance that I do NOT have whatever it takes to play a brass instrument!

Hubby had bassoon as the highest.

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Tobin 
Date:   2007-08-24 15:23

Chris P,

The bassoon is by far the least perfect instrument. I'll be happy to put clarinet in second place!

James

Gnothi Seauton

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Clarence 
Date:   2007-08-24 15:40

I think clarinet is in there some where.

Oboe 100%
Bassoon 92%
Viola 92%
trombone 83%
French Horn 75%
Tuba 75%
Cello 58%
Clarinet 42%
Violin 42%
Flute 42%
Trumpet 25%
String Bass 17%
Percussion 0%

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Dee 
Date:   2007-08-26 15:25

Here's mine. Interesting to say the least.


French Horn 50%
Oboe 50%
Clarinet 50%
Viola 50%

Cello 42%

Tuba 25%
trombone 25%
Bassoon 25%
Flute 25%
String Bass 25%

Percussion 17%
Trumpet 17%
Violin 8%

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Gandalfe 
Date:   2007-08-26 15:53

French horn??? That's only because there was no saxophone on the list. ;o)

Jim and Suzy

Pacifica Big Band
Seattle, Washington

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Gordon (NZ) 
Date:   2007-08-27 04:31

What a load of rubbish!

It makes me out to be a bass player. Yet my brain, in spite of a lot of effort, can barely pick out a bass part, let alone relate it to chords and progressions in any sort of non-academic way, which is no doubt why I resorted to playing melody instruments.

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: DavidBlumberg 
Date:   2007-08-27 13:21

Hey, from the look of it you can create your own test.

Now to figure out what makes a Clarinetist a Clarinetist.

http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com


 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Ed Granger 
Date:   2007-08-27 15:47

DavidBlumberg wrote:

> Hey, from the look of it you can create your own test.
>
> Now to figure out what makes a Clarinetist a Clarinetist.
>

Hopefully it's not treating those around you like Benny Goodman was notorious for doing. Or being married as many times as Artie Shaw. Or putting up for years with George Szell.

Off to my first beginning oboe lesson ...

Ed

Post Edited (2007-08-27 15:53)

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: BassetHorn 
Date:   2007-08-29 04:11

92% tuba...

Close, I am a contrabass clarinet player.

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Mike Clarinet 
Date:   2007-08-29 08:04

Just as a bit of mucking about, I tried answering all the questions in the extreme. If you select all the humblest, non-individual self-effacing options, you come out 100% clarinet. This test does not describe any clarinet player I know. Unsurprisingly, if you select all the most out-going, arrogant, to-hell-with-anyone-else options, you end up a trumpet player.

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: claclaws 
Date:   2007-08-29 11:47

Thank you Mike Clarinet! ^0^
I actually wondered what was the rationale (if there's any) behind the wordings of the questionnaire.
It was so fun, but I don't think it merits too much of serious consideration.

BTW, trombone was the highest for me. Huh!

Lucy Lee Jang


 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: allencole 
Date:   2007-08-30 17:01

92% Bassoon
75% Tuba
67% Clarinet & Viola
58% French Horn, Oboe & Flute

Everything else 50% or less.

String Bass only 33% although I played for a good while.

Didn't even register on saxophone. Maybe it wasn't an option.

Interesting test. Thanks David!

Allen Cole

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: genekeyes 2017
Date:   2007-08-30 18:19

Just took the test twice:
1st time checked all agree (last choice) came out a tuba.
2nd time checked all disagree (1st choice) guess what? I'm still a tuba

anybody want to buy some slightly used reeds?

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Nessie1 
Date:   2008-08-28 13:22

I came out as 87% a bassoonist which is an instrument I love the sound of but I have never seriously considered playing but only 33% a clarinettist (with lots of other instruments in between) .

To talk seriously, the test has at least one major drawback - it is only talking about the personality aspects of suitability for the instrument which, while they are important, are not the only consideration. For example, the biggest reasons that I would not have thought about the bassoon are that it costs so much and weighs so much to carry around on my fairly small frame and I also doubt whether my hand reach is big enough. As for all the people who seemed to be suited to the oboe, one of the big deciding factors between oboe and clarinet (or so I've heard) is the thickness of the lips and size of the mouth. Obviously there will be exceptions that prove the rule but there is no denying that physical characteristics play some part in suitability for an instrument.

In any case, let's not allow some test sway us from our instrument - if any friends ever ask me about which instrument they or their children should play, I tell them that there are all sorts of things to take into account and books to read etc but the biggest guide of all is which instrument you love!

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: DavidBlumberg 
Date:   2008-08-28 13:31

I always suggest to play the instrument that you like the sound of. .

http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com


 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: mrn 
Date:   2008-08-28 14:05

I tied between horn, tuba, and violin (75%)--I think have years of playing Rose etudes and band transcriptions of orchestral pieces to blame for this. I think I'm a violinist. :-)

Clarinet 42%. (Second lowest score)

Percussion 17% (Lowest score)

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: clarionman 
Date:   2008-08-28 14:12

Bassoon 83%---- Bassooners are fun and outgoing usually. They're very fun to have at a party.

What is the description of a Clarinet player?

Oboe 75%
trombone 75%
Tuba 75%
Violin 58%
Flute 50%
Trumpet 42%
Clarinet 42%
Cello 42%
Viola 42%
Horn 25%
String Bass 8%
Percussion 0%



 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: William 
Date:   2008-08-28 14:59

LOL, I'm a Hornist!! Clarinet was a distant #4. Not surprising, however, as horn was my "secondary" instrument in college. My UW-Madison horn instructor--the late, great, John Barrows (of NY WWQ fame)--said I should have been a horn player and even offered to give me an instrument (an old Alexander double) if I switched majors from the clarinet. Our horn quartet (I played second, I think) played a couple of concerts and I can still "get around" on horn pretty well. So maybe this test has some validity and should be used to screen and guilde beginning band students to their choice of instrument. Given to me, "way back then", it might have saved me from dealing with those recent--and still terrible--V12 flowpacks.

[hmmmm....maybe there's a Conn 10D waiting for me on eBay]

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: John O'Janpa 
Date:   2008-08-28 15:50

Basoon 87%

Guess I ought to try one.

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: bstutsman 
Date:   2008-08-28 16:08

Clarinet #1 67%. The percentage makes me think I may be lacking committment. <g>

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: thomas.b 
Date:   2008-08-28 16:08

oh dear.... trombone....
what a mess :-)



 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Geirskogul 
Date:   2008-08-28 17:06

You scored as a Tuba
You're a tuba. What good support.
String Bass
75%
Bassoon
75%
Tuba
75%
trombone
67%
Viola
58%
Percussion
50%
Oboe
50%
Cello
50%
Flute
50%
Horn
42%
Violin
33%
Clarinet
25%
Trumpet
17%

TUBA?!

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: stevesklar 
Date:   2008-08-28 17:44

well my result was blank

what's up with that ????

must be the conductor .. always clueless ...

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: coasten1 
Date:   2008-08-28 20:29

Funny, I wanted to learn violin but couldn't because it was a 'sissy' instrument for a boy. I could have done great things. lol

Cello 75%
Bassoon 67%
Oboe 58%
Clarinet 58%
Horn 50%
Viola 42%
Violin 42%
Tuba 33%
trombone 25%
Percussion 17%
Trumpet 17%
String Bass 17%
Flute 17%

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: cxgreen48 
Date:   2008-08-28 22:35

WOW, i actually got clarinetist!

Cello 75%
Clarinet 75%
trombone 67%
Viola 58%
Tuba 58%
Violin 58%
Oboe 58%
Horn 58%
Percussion 42%
Bassoon 33%
Trumpet 25%
String Bass 25%
Flute 17%

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: autumnsilence 
Date:   2008-08-28 23:01

Viola 83%
Clarinet 75%
Cello 67%
Bassoon 67%
String Bass 58%
Horn 50%
Tuba 50%
Flute 50%
Violin 42%
trombone 42%
Oboe 42%
Percussion 17%
Trumpet 0%

Not bad, clarinet second..

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: estclar82 
Date:   2008-08-29 03:19

oboist 100%
clarinettist 100%
TUba 82%

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!



 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: Alfred 
Date:   2008-08-30 16:25

I'm a bassoonist.

Funny, because most of the stuff I chose were outgoing traits, and my friend's a phenomenal bassoonist, but REALLY shy and quiet.

Bassoon
92%
trombone
92%
Trumpet
83%
Cello
83%
Horn
83%
Flute
67%
String Bass
67%
Oboe
67%
Tuba
58%
Clarinet
50%
Violin
42%
Viola
42%
Percussion
25%



 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: ASBassCl1 
Date:   2008-08-30 16:54

Dang 100% Bassoon it says. 33% clarinet, 0% trumpet. I guess the trumpet part holds true.

 
 Re: Are you a Clarinetist? test
Author: marcia 
Date:   2008-08-30 16:58

Did it twice. came out a cellist both times. Clarinet was well down the list. And at one time I decided if I was to ever take up a string instrument it would be cello. Dark secrets??

Marcia

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