Author: Mike Clarinet
Date: 2006-02-07 13:23
It is normal for a warm-up time to be needed. In my experience, clarinet takes longer to warm up than sax, but will stay in tune for longer once it gets there. If you are in a pit band and switching all the time, this means that once the clarinet is in tune it will just about stay there when you are playing sax, but the sax will not stay in tune when playing clarinet. This is not so bad because the sax warms up very quickly. The clarinet takes longer because wood is a poorer conductor of heat than metal, but once warm, will retain heat better. Also, wooden clarinets are sensitive to the moisture in your breath. When you start to play, the moisture is absorbed by the wood and it swells slightly.
You have also gone the dificult way round by learing sax first with the looser embouchure (sp?), then clarinet. Many "sax players with a clarinet" have or had problems playing clarinets in tune with a good tone because it took them a long time to adjust to the tighter clarinet embouchure. Conversely, many "clarinet players with a sax", including Yours Truly, tend to be quite sharp on sax, but generally learn to adjust quicker.
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