America’s Hometown Band Clarinet Connection

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Clarinet Material Concepts by Rheuben Allen I hear so many clarinet players say the good clarinets are made from wood…. I hate to break it to them … but… there are more bad wood clarinets on the planet than there are good ones…. Over time wood bores change, hell, the bore changes every time you … Read more

List of the Clarinet Family Octave clarinets — Very rare. Pitched around an octave higher than the B♭ clarinet. A-Flat Piccolo Clarinet (key of A-Flat) E-Flat Sopranino Clarinet (key of E-Flat) D Clarinet (key of D) C Clarinet (key of C) B-Flat Clarinet (key of B-Flat) A Clarinet (key of A) G Clarinet (key of G) … Read more

G clarinet: Today the G clarinet is used mostly in contemporary “Turkish Music” and is often thought as and referred to as a “Turkish clarinet”.  Being much longer than the B-Flat or A clarinets the sound is rich and dark. The  Albert system keywork and a range to low E is mostly used…. The G … Read more

Muller system is the system Oehler based is clarinet system on…. Ivan Müller, sometimes spelled Iwan Mueller (1786 in Revel, Estonia  – 1854 in Buckenberg), was a clarinetist, composer and inventor who at the beginning of the 19th century was responsible for a major step forward in the development of the clarinet, the air-tight pad. Biography Müller was … Read more

The Oehler system (also spelled Öhler) is a system for clarinet keys developed by Oskar Oehler. Based on the Muller System (Ivan Muller)  clarinet, the system adds tone holes to correct intonation and acoustic deficiencies, notably of the alternately-fingered notes B♭ and F. The system has more keys than the Boehm system, up to 27 in the Voll-Oehler … Read more

A clarinet: is 1 half step in pitch below the B-Flat clarinet Standard orchestral instrument used alongside the B♭ soprano. Because the strings play in keys that makes the B-Flat clarinet work very hard and use a lot of cross fingerings…. Playing the A clarinet for EXAMPLE: When the B-Flat clarinet has 7 sharps (the key … Read more

The word clarinet  may have entered the English language via the French clarinette  (the feminine diminutive of Old French  clarin or clarion), or from Provencal clarin,  “oboe”. It is ultimately from the Latin root clarus (“clear”). It would seem, however, that its real roots are to be found among some of the various names for trumpets used around the Renaissance and Baroque eras. … Read more

B-Flat Clarinet: Considered to be the primary member of the clarinet family is the most common type of clarinet. In the US it is used in schools, concert bands, military bands, Jazz, orchestras and is the most common clarinet used in Movie & TV scores…

Albert system The Albert system refers to a system of clarinet  keywork and fingering developed by Eugene Albert. In the United Kingdom it is known as the simple system. It has been largely replaced in United States by the Boehm System.. The Oehler System is used mostly by Germans & Austrian clarinetists… Big Band musician Jimmy Dorsey used … Read more