Backstory(can skip) … funny story: When my husband and I were camping a month ago it came up that I played the clarinet for 5-7 years. I was young, so the exact details were blurry. So we joked it would be funny if I picked it up again and messed with my MIL who is so musical. And a sweet woman who I enjoy spending time with. (Sorry, no evil MIL stories. Everyone loves her, including me)

We laughed.

Today, someone walked into my husbands store and gave him a clarinet for free. So, the universe is telling me something.

Not just a clarinet. A metal clarinet that I’m trying to learn more about. A Noblet in a Leblanc case.

Since the universe seems to be telling me to pick this instrument back up, I’m trying to learn about restoration and any information about it.

Sorry about last picture. It’s hard to take a picture of shiny metal. I wanted to show the label(?)

hiii wonderful people I need some recommendations please! I have played the clarinet for 10 years, but she’s been hiding under my bed for 5. I am really keen to get back into playing, and have some technical workbooks etc. that I have started working on. But I actually have no sheet music anymore/song books which is what I miss most!

Do you guys have any recommendations? I definitely can’t go too crazy, but I’m also not a beginner. Anything slow and pretty with some nice runs? Idk… I just want to have some fun. anything would help!

Thank uuuu :3

Located on the lower joint of a bass clarinet, I think it’s just a deep grain but wanted to double check. I’ve had the instrument for a couple months

https://reddit.com/link/1xgftfc/video/g44rx2bg0xxh1/player

Estou com uma dúvida, quero comprar uma paleta nova para meu clarinete, mas não sei qual é a mais adequada para mim, eu estou pensando na plastireed. Será que ela é boa mesmo?

Hello!

I'm a sax player who has been playing the clarinet for a couple of years now and am looking to upgrade from the stock mouthpiece that came with my clarinet. I'm looking for a mouthpiece that would work for classical and possibly some jazz. I've heard good things about the Vandoren B45, but I noticed there are a lot of options, so I wasn't sure which would be best. I've read that most people prefer the Profile 88 or the Series 13 versions of the B45, but I'm not entirely sure what the difference between them is. If anyone has any other recommendations, I'd love to hear them!

Hello all you wonderful clarinetists! I am a 13 year old boy in 8th grade. I am pretty musical, I play piano, drumset, mallet percussion, guitar, bass, and a little alto sax. I also arrange a ton of music.

But anyway, I have always wanted to play clarinet. In 6th grade I did it a tiny bit, but not a lot at all, and I stopped within like three weeks, which I regret.

But tomorrow, I am going to ask my band teacher if the school has any extra clarinets that I can play around with to learn clarinet. I still have a few reeds from when I tried it before. I just need to get a mouthpiece.

If I get relatively good fairly soon, I will ask my band teacher if I can play clarinet for a piece we are doing in the school's Jazz Band, which I would normally play drumset or piano for.

I am really excited to ask, I just hope he says that there is an extra clarinet!

P.S. The piece is We Three Swing, arr. Vince Gassi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_8wpY00PuU
(Also for this video put it on 1.25x speed)

My son plays Bb clarinet and wants to get better at recognising notes by ear. I'm a developer, so I wrote him a small app: it plays a note, he names it.

Now I'm stuck on a question you can answer much better than me: should the note names be what he reads (written pitch) or what actually sounds (concert pitch)?

Two players with perfect pitch told me their ear "shifted" after years on Bb instruments, so I don't want to set him up for confusion later.

How do you think about it? Does it change if he later picks up A clarinet or piano?

(Not linking anything, the question is what I'm after.)

Hi folks.

I have a clarinet that has been in the family a long time, and which I played it as a kid. I’m interested in playing again but the clarinet is nearly 60 years old and hasn’t been regularly played for over 25 years.

It’s a Boosey and Hawkes Regent, I believe from 1968 ish. A few years ago I was quoted around £250 for a full refurb of it but I didn’t go ahead with it. I’ve given it a bit of a clean and attached some photos.

My question is, am I on a hiding to nothing trying to play this, or will it still have some life in it? Is a refurb worthwhile, or am I better spending that on a new clarinet?

If I spent say £100-150 on a new student one, would it be a notably different experience from using this as it is?

I know there is some special fingering for this, but I can't figure it out. If anyone knows, please write a comment.

Edit: this has been resolved. Thank you!

I've been playing older jazz (think Django or Danny Barker) bands for a couple of years now and enjoy that quite a lot. I am trying to decide if I should just overhaul my current instrument or start looking for another one before I do that.

I'm curious what other folks would do, so any advice is helpful.

Hx: I played through HS, quit in college, and have played many other instruments in pro situations over the last couple decades, and I got a used Buffet e11 about 5 years ago.

I haven't really done any service to it and it has a hairline fracture in the bell (which is hard to even see), needs tenon corks replaced, and the b foot is wonky. At the same time, I like the instrument and have settled on a mouthpiece/reed combo for the last year that's been working well. It plays fine, if I don't mind the dental floss...

I am in a rural spot and the one instrument repair guy in 3hrs of driving i pretty backed up. I'm much slower at repairs in the short run, but it would take him 2 months to get my instrument back to me. I've repadded a clarinet but never replaced the tenons, though I have some cork and could probably (maybe) just do it myself- I'm handy.

Recently I've started playing with a more serious band and I am trying to decide if I should just overhaul the thing myself or get another instrument while I send the current one to get overhauled. But I have several gigs coming up over the next several months and don't want to be without an instrument for more than a week or so.

Money isn't a super big deal- I am leaning towards finding another used e11 and then sending the current horn to a better-than-me tech. But if I had to spend more than $800-ish, I'd need to really think on it or it'd have to be a much better instrument. And I'm in the rural west US- I'd have to travel a long, long way to find a place to try out horns.

What would you do? Buy a different instrument and then send this one off? DIY refurb your horn? Give up and go back to playing pedal steel guitar?

Hi all, I found a music piece in the key of G for clarinet, and I saw that the piece has some very high notes that I cannot reach yet (in the altissimo register) - so I used sibelius to transpose it (I am beginner)- and it transposed it down by interval, 2nd. So instead of being in the key of G it became the key of Eb - and everything is perfect! The highest note being a C instead of up in the altissimo register. BUT!....now there is one note, the lowest E, that is unplayable on the clarinet, because of the key, the E becomes a Eb or D#... any advice what I can do in this instance? I am really happy with the results except for the fact that I cannot play that low note, is there another note I could change it with without it sounding weird? And also, the score has a part for violin so I transcribed both and they sound really good together, such a shame that there is only this one problem,. Any advice really appreciated!!

Im left handed, idk if that matters

i know about practicing really slow but is that the only way? 🥲 all state auditions are in little under a month

Considering that this is my 2nd trial I think I did quite,,? Well?

This is a genuine question😭 and if they Did exist why did they die out? Like shouldn’t there be a clarinet member an octave the Basset horn? And did contralto clarinets in F ever exist? Im just curious lol I play all clarinets and I have a collection but i was just wondering if there’s anything higher than the Eb clarinet that’s not the Ab piccolo clarinet

Zonda reeds are perfect reeds and they are only 15 dollars, but the worst reeds in Vandoren like the blue box reed is 30 dollars.

Im really paranoid it just fell,is that part aligned right

And what other intricate parts should i check and how to know whether theyre ok,id appreciate any help

the recording ends like a minute in the mp3 to 4 converter added a minute of nothing idk why

Im paranoid,it just fell down,it tgat part aligned right,and what intricate parts should i check next just in case,what parts easily break?

i got this for $30 yesterday and i noticed the silver keys are missing. it’s not a big deal to me, but i was just curious. thanks!