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Re: Panic of a low clarinetist

Author: Hunter_100
Date: 2024-01-31 18:59

You can keep the eb warmed up by blowing air through it at any chance you have in rests during earlier pieces and holding it in your hands or put in under an armpit. The barrel and first inch or too of the top joint are going to be the most critical to warm up. If that is not possible, you need to set up the instrument with a short enough barrel so it plays in tune when its still cold. Hopefully you don't have a bunch of throat notes right at the start, those are usually flat on eb anyway.

I google that music, it seems that the eb part is separate from the 1,2,3 Bb parts. Are you being asked to cover an eb solo or something like that? Usually bands either have an eb clarinet player or they skip the part completely. It seems unusual to me that they would just drop the eb part on you when you aren't an eb player. If the eb part stays at or below written altissimo D, you could always just play it transposed on Bb since that only takes you up to the Bb's altissimo G which I assume you can play.

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