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Is brand xyz any good and who knows about it?
How do you assess the value of a used clarinet?
What does the number of keys an rings mean for the price?
How do I find a good clarinet teacher near where I live?
I am a beginner - how can I proceed faster?
What is transposing - how do you do it?
Is there special fingering for larger or smaller clarinets?
I need help with my mouthpiece - intonation - sound!
Just before you write, please consider whether there is a chance that you could find the answer in the internet by using your favourite search engine (like Google). Unfortunately this is true for many questions I receive. You don't have to be a search expert, just key in the nouns of your question.
For example, looking for a clarinet teacher in Boston who would teach you Klezmer style, type:Klezmer Clarinet Teacher Boston. Start with the most specific, end with the most general.If you started with "Boston", you'd probably find a lot of commercial ads that have nothing todo with clarinets in the first lines of your search result. But the above should give you some hundred answers, half of them good ones.
If you don't find anything there, then it is fair to ask for an answer by Mail.I don't want to promise too much here but if I am not on a long vacation (and unfortunately that does not happen often these days), you should receive your answer within a couple of days.
This is something you can't answer generally, since instruments might turn out very differentindividually. Much like it is not true to say that Mercedes cars are generally better thanCitroens. Off course Selmer and Yamaha hardly produce crab, and Amati in plastic is hardto play in tune. But further one shouldn't go. Rather examine the individual instrument!You find general information on brands and price list via your search engine.
Usually not - my experience may be wide but it is one person's experience and limited. Andanother individual instrument of the same type and series might behave different, too.If you want to find out about the making of the clarinet you have got in your hands, you willusually find the maker printed onto the upper and lower joint; if you have the (original) case,that will tell you something, too. Again: use your favourite search engine!
Difficult subject! That depends on type, finish, use, image and demand - very much as with cars.I have given you some clues on how to examine a clarinet and how to calculate (technically) a pricein the chapter how to buy.
Generally: Yes. Of course it depends on that shape and whether sound and tuning are good. But if all thisis OK, it is maintained and appears like new, then it is worth the price. The wood might be - given a goodtreatment like correct oiling about once a year - be even better than it was then. The problem is usuallykeys and axis, but if everything works smoothly, silent and closes perfectly, yes, then it is worth it.
Generally yes. Clarinets do have 17, 20 or 22 keys and 4,5 or 6 rings. You find an explanation on whatthat means in the chapter on keys, and clues on how that influences a priceare given in how to buy.
Just do it like me: using your favourite search engine (like Google). You don't have to be a search expert,just key in the nouns of your question, like: Klezmer Bredforth Clarinet Teacher. Start with themost specific, end with the most general. The above should give you some twenty answers, half of them goodones.
If you use the same fingering of the recorder on the clarinet in upper register, the tones on the clarinetshould be exactly one full tone below the recorder. That is called transposition. When playing a C on the clarinet it produces a B flat sound - that is why it is calledB flat clarinet. In the lower register (chalumeau) the clarinet is not one octave - eight full tones -lower - like the recorder - but one-and-a-half octaves. Once you understand that and got used to it,playing together is no problem. What you really need is sheet music, set for a C-instrument (recorder) anda B flat instrument (Clarinet), where somebody has done the transposition for you (see below).
The alto clarinet transposes to E flat instrument. It is noted in the violine key. The transposition is simple:You write all the notes that were intended for a C-Instrument (second row) like the piano three half tones lower(you play an F, but it sounds as A). If you use the B flat clarinet's voice as source, you have to write it fivehalf tones lower than printed (because the clarinet plays everything one full or two half tones lower than it isprinted: It plays a B flat and you hear an A). Then you have to adapt the sharps and flats,too:If it was a C-voice you add three sharps or subtract three flats, if the voice was for B flat instruments,you add one sharp or subtract one flat. Now all four instruments in our example play an A (that is, A is whatit sounds).
Notation programs do that for you automatically. For example look for Finale NotePad in version 2008 or older, that can be loaded for free (but no more available at finalemusic.com, since they want to sell you Notepad 2009).With those tools, you can, too, hear, whether you have done it correctly.
Clue: Often you can avoid the whole tiresome work of transposition by using an alto saxophonevoice with the alto clarinet - alto saxophones are common instruments and they are in E flat, too!
In general all clarinets are using the same fingering for the chalumeau and clarinet register,except for the low keys that only bass clarinets have - but than they are simple and straight forward.You might find additional trill keys on bass clarinets, since there is lots of space, but theirmeaning is no mystery.
Only in the highest (third) register there are special fingering hints sometimes, but that dependson the individual instrument and they will supply you with tables for that. However, you will hardlyever need those.
One reader wrote: I play clarinet for 3 years now. Recently my intonation has become to high forsome notes (despite tuning). Some have told me I should use less pressure with my lips, my teachersaid, I should rather form an "O" with my lips when playing, and the music shop told me, I have ato tight embouchure, and some fried said, the reason is that the bore in the mouthpiece is muchnarrower than in my clarinet itself.
I tried out another mouthpiece and the instrument was much better in tune, only the sound wassomewhat shrill and cheap, the reed was much to soft for it, and the mouthpiece didn't go intothe barrel easily.
I tried another mouthpiece, that was going in much better, but I could hardly produce any tonewith that. I have never used a different mouthpiece before on my instrument than my original oneand I don't know what to do now. Help me, please!
Indeed embouchure changes over time and that changes the tuning (maybe you just start noticing itonce you mastered most of the other problems). Indeed intonation problems can be tackled with amouthpiece change, but since the chamber in your mouth counts as part of the mouthpiece, you canstart changing that. Therefore your teachers remark making an "O" with your mouth ismuch more reasonable than one might think at first: an "O" makes the space inside yourmouth bigger than a "U" which again could be reduced by saying "I".
It is a very good sign that tuning became better with a different mouthpiece, even if the soundwas not pleasant. The sound is, too, a question of the lay, and furthermore it is verysubjective. Ask your clarinet teacher whatshe thinks! But all that gives a mouthpiece builder or a music shop salesman some idea whereto start searching a good mouthpiece for your. At first you should try as many mouthpieces asyou can. They have differences in lay that may result in problems with your reeds and yourembouchure and your jaws position. But trying them out helps finding what you need. Do takesome time for each because you must get used to it first, ten minutes is definitely not enough!Some producers and dealers send you some 3 - 5 mouthpieces to try out, if you don't take one,you have to pay the postage, that is all (check in the internet).
If you have problems because the mouthpiece is to narrow for the barrel you can use paper (dampcigarette paper is best) wound around the cork. If it hardly can be pushed in, beware! Use corkgrease a lot, but never use force - you might crack your barrel!
In the end you have experimented with mouthpieces until you found something suitable. If not,you have got the experience now to discuss your problem with a mouthpiece maker (I'd rather call firston the phone). Ask your teacher and/or other experienced clarinettists about who does that well inyour area or country. With all information on what type of mouthpiece worked how he should be ina position to make one that fits you (usually they just alter an existing model).
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