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Re: Clarinet male vs female dominated

Author: exclarinetist01
Date: 2023-01-18 02:19

Thanks for the thoughts everyone. It seems that the idea of clarinet as a female gendered instrument at the elementary and middle school level has endured. But what surprises me is how this seems to flip completely at the highest levels of clarinet playing. A quick search of the Big 5 orchestras plus the orchestras of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and DC (National) reveals only one female clarinet player among all of them! Which fits with my experience at the conservatory I attended, where the clarinet section was overwhelmingly male. Even the bassoon sections in the major orchestras seem to be far more balanced despite the fact that in my experience, bassoon was more "male gendered" than clarinet starting out in school. I wonder what could be causing this strange phenomena. In any case, perhaps it will give my son a bit of hope to not give up on the clarinet, should he be interested in playing our wonderful instrument.

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