Techniques Used by Clarinet Players

This article is dedicated to my fellow musicians who play saxophone, and more specifically to those who love it. The reasons why we started playing saxophone are endless. Ranging from because we loved the sound that it created or just because we admired how shiny it was. Whether you started playing saxophone 50 years ago or yesterday, you are a part of this exclusive group. Welcome to the family.

When played correctly, the saxophone creates a sumptuous sound that is able to fill a whole room. Sound has to be produced just right though, or else the result will be a high pitched squeak. The sound from the saxophone is made when one blows air into the mouthpiece, which causes a wooden reed to vibrate. Different pitches are produced when the air column is lengthened or shortened by pushing the keys up and down. The book Music: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, written by Neil Ardley, illustrates the importance of having keys, or buttons, on woodwind instruments such as the saxophone. “…woodwind instruments can produce more than 40 notes even though the player has only eight fingers and two thumbs with which to get them [keys].”(29) Being able to produce so many notes is a great benefit to saxophone players because they can undulate between notes and octaves more easily than other instruments.

It was in my ninth grade year when I finally became the first chair clarinet.

Whereas most renaissance and baroque instruments have direct descendants or analogues (for example, modern trombones and sackbuts, modern and baroque violins, etc.), this is not true for cornetts; no mainstream modern instrument combines a lip-vibrated mouthpiece with woodwind-style fingering, and this lack of any kind of continuous performing tradition necessitated a re-invention of both their playing technique and usage. Cornetts are usually considered to be difficult to play well, but performance standards have improved dramatically over the last fifty years or so.

If you were to go back to the 15th century, it would be easy to recognize the predecessor of the trombone. Previously the sackbut, this Italian instrument was originally intended to accompany a church organ, so it didn’t have music written specifically for it. This fifty hour process involves lots of shaping and torching in order to get a beautiful outcome with a powerful sound.

Like any stringed instrument the player must be able to easily adjust the height of the strings, tune their instrument for pitch, and know how to check and adjust the pegs. They must also know how to change the bridge of the instrument and what the effects of changing the bridge will have on the music quality and tone.

The first group of clarinets are the hard workers; ones who do more than expected. Clarinets have many keys on our instruments so, it takes a huge amount of memorization to know all of the notes. The instrument has twenty four keys, and can play fifty two different notes. Some people do not all of the notes right away. Like the third octave, or the extremely high ones. Most

I later took up band in seventh grade to get a sense of what music is. Intentionally, I wanted to play the alto-sax and hopefully learn to make great music with it, but it would cost me, so I chose a clarinet. The clarinet had an interesting sound similar to a sax and it was nice to know that I sounded better than Squidward Tentacles. The flute was another instrument that caught my eye, it looked like a recorder but looks and sounds relatively refined. But, I could never get the embouchure right to get that sweet flute sound, instead it sounded like blowing air into a tube, looking back, I probably wasn’t ready to play it

Entering 6th grade, I decided to join beginning band at Torch Middle School in La Puente and chose the clarinet as my instrument. Out of the eight clarinet players that were in band, I was the worst. I became determined to become a better clarinet player and dedicated my time to practicing my instrument at home. By the end of 8th grade, I was impressed with my improvement and became third best out of six clarinets. However, freshmen year came along and I felt newcomer again. I was bent on becoming one of the best clarinet players.

Trying to understand how the trumpet works is a very difficult task that many trumpet players goes through every day of their lives. What if I told you that there are ways to help you come close to achieving this? Some of us think that trumpet has nothing to do with the mental aspects of life. Some feel playing old things does not help develop new skills. Some think when we play the trumpet we buzz into the mouthpiece. I will guide you through an approach that not only helped me but helped many trumpeters today. The Bill Adam approach to trumpet playing requires the student to understand how air is produced on the trumpet, how the embouchure plays a role in proper trumpet playing, the routine and

This paper will explore the early instrument known as the chalumeau and the various types of instruments that have evolved from it. The chalumeau group of instruments were folk instruments that were played with a single reed and the chalumeau itself is most commonly known as the predecessor to the modern-day clarinet. The instrument has only eight tone-holes on its cylindrical bore. There are many other single reed instruments that resemble the chalumeau and were in existence during the same time period. I will be discussing the history of the chalumeau and its repertoire, similar instruments of the time, and the evolution from the chalumeau to the modern day clarinet. My sources will include scholarly articles from online databases, such

Learning a musical instrument can be a worthwhile and fulfilling experience. It has a host benefits, including increasing various academic skills, improving confidence, aiding with stress relief, sharpening concentration, added social benefits, and it can also change lives. A great instrument to learn is the B♭ clarinet. It is easy to learn, yet difficult to master. One of the most basic skills to be able to play the clarinet includes assembling it.

The clarinet is a single-reed woodwind instrument with a cylindrical tube. The clarinet is a very interesting instrument that plays good music. It is typically used in band ensembles. It is made out of either plastic or wood. The reed is a part of the clarinet that it can't be played without. The clarinet was originated a long time ago and it has an interesting manufacturing process.

The trumpet has been used for many years for many different uses that many folks do not even know about or have even thought about. In

The saxophone was invented in 1840 by Adolphe Sax,a Belgian instrument maker,flautist,and a clarinetist. The first saxophone that was patented was on the 18th of June 1846.The place the first saxophone was played was Brusother Assembales sells then Mr.Sax moved to Paris and sold saxophones there. He also made several improvements to the bass clarinets. Mr.Sax wanted the saxophone to be at an octave unlike the clarinets, that rises in pitch.The saxophone rises in pitch by a twelfth if overblown. Overblown instruments have identical fingering for both registers. Mr. Sax invented a quartet of saxophones including the alto, soprano, tenor and baritone. The clarinet and saxophone are very much alike even though they don't look anything like.