The B flat clarinet is used most by professionals, concert bands, and orchestras.
The clarinet is famous for being the most glorious instrument ever! It is usually found in symphonic bands, orchestras, marching bands, and wind ensembles
The most common clarinet is pitched in Bb. There are also clarinets pitched one half step lower, in A. "A" clarinets are used primarily in orchestras, while Bb clarinets are used in orchestras, bands and many other ensembles. Mozart's Clarinet Concerto was written for clarinet in A.
Clarinets are used in many different ensembles, rangng from Orchestras to swing bands. There are also clarinet choirs where all different types of clarinet play in harmony. Clarinets were also used alot in the Big Band era into the 1940s. Glann Millers Big Band found what it was looking for in the 1940s when a clarinettist joined them.
The clarinet, a single-reeded instrument classifying it as a woodwind, and affectionately called a "licorice stick" by its users is normally used in symphony orchestras, jazz groups, or concert bands.
Clarinets are used in any and every musical ensemble. Symphonic bands, symphonic orchestras, jazz, marching bands... Some places even have clarinet choirs devoted entirely to the various clarinets.
Bass clarinets play in orchestras because orchestras sometimes play pieces that are scored for bass clarinet, or have bass clarinet parts in it. One example of a piece like that is The Rite Of Spring, by Igor Stravinsky. It has significant solos and duets by the bass clarinet, and "the show cannot go on" without the bass clarinet. But most pieces, do not have bass clarinet parts, so the bass clarinet is rarely seen in orchestras today.
Marching Bands, Orchestras, Big bands, concert bands, Jazz bands, and sometimes but rarely rock bands. Marching Bands, Orchestras, Big bands, concert bands, Jazz bands, and sometimes but rarely rock bands.
Always: Bb soprano clarinets and Bass clarinets, sometimes: Soprano A and Eb clarinets, very rarely: other varieties of clarinet (piccolo clarinet, basset horn, basset clarinet, contra alto/contrabass, alto clarinet, etc.)Bb soprano clarinets (the common clarinet) and bass clarinets are always used in orchestras and bands. Orchestra music (bands not as commonly, but still sometimes) frequently call for soprano A and soprano Eb clarinets, so usually Bb players learn an alternate clarinet and play it when they're not playing the normal Bb part. Other kinds of clarinets, such as basset clarinet, tenor clarinet, and basset horn, are rarely used (not never used, just not nearly as commonly.) Alto clarinets are used much more frequently in bands than in orchestras.
Orchestras and bands.
you use it in bands and orchestras
The saxophone is usually used as a member of a jazz or wind ensemble. There are a few symphonic works that include music for saxophone (e.g. Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice), and a number of concertos featuring saxophone as a soloist, the majority of the standard works for orchestra do not include saxophone. Outside of jazz, the sax family (including the standard tenor sax and the larger baritone, and sometimes others) is used most commonly in wind ensembles and marching bands.