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Author: Chris P
Date: 2025-03-05 22:17
While this is a clarinet based message board, it doesn't necessarily mean that as a clarinettist, clarinet player or clarinet enthusiast that the clarinet in any shape or form has to be your ultimate favourite musical instrument.
With the exception of clarinets (specifically ALL clarinets), what is your favourite musical instrument?
I've always been a fan of oboes and harpsichords, although to narrow it down to one instrument, then it's cor anglais for me.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
Post Edited (2025-03-05 22:17)
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2025-03-05 22:33
These days, voice. For many past years, piano. I get some of my best inspiration from listening to singers.
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Author: lmliberson
Date: 2025-03-05 23:36
I totally agree with Philip - if we all aspire to sing and make music with the clarinet (or any instrument, actually), it is the voice that serves as an example.
I would always - without exception - have my students sing a phrase in order to listen to themselves and feel the music with the clarinet removed from the equation. It was a rare occasion when one of them could initially play a phrase on the clarinet as musically well as they could sing it. Just like we speak in phrases naturally, we can often sing in a similar fashion - even as we might have a lousy singing voice!
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Author: David H. Kinder
Date: 2025-03-06 00:04
Oboe and french horn. When played exceptionally well, they tend to just 'heal the soul'.
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Author: clartl
Date: 2025-03-06 23:24
i agree with david on this one. A nice in-tune oboe with great tone is unbeatable
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Author: Tom H
Date: 2025-03-07 02:53
Flugalhorn. I own one and used it while teaching beginning band students and also occasionally took a solo on it with the HS jazz band I taught.
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Author: Mike M
Date: 2025-03-07 21:17
Bass (electric bass in particular).
Our daughter (a very-good violinist) played electric bass in her school's jazz band.
I remember her telling me that the frets made it way-easier....
fast forward:
I broke-out her bass during Covid and started playing scales/arpeggios (I'm a classical muso) just for something to do - rather than think about all of my cancelled gigs that year.
I have since continued to play bass as a release from my normal ww practice routine.
For the past several months I have played bass in a 2x per month "jam" with a guitarist and drummer playing classic rock; Clapton, AC/DC, etc. I am having a ball.
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2025-03-08 05:53
Chris, harpsichord seems a rare contender for favorite instrument nowadays. A good one played by a capable and understanding performer can be brilliantly illuminating. Dynamics conveyed by compositional augmentation and diminution. I used to enjoy the D. Scarlatti sonatas on harpsichord. In modern times it's often used for an exotic, sometimes menacing or even wild effect.
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Author: jdbassplayer
Date: 2025-03-08 19:03
Bass oboe, specifically large bore instruments like the Heckelphone and Lupophone. They just have such a beautiful tone.
-JDbassplayer
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