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In order to play the Clarinet, you have to have the 7 main parts. They are the mouthpiece, the barrel, the upper joint, the lower joint, the bell, the reed, and the ligature. Once you have that it is actually pretty easy. To start off you need to soak the reed inside your mouth for about 1 minute. Unless it is new then for about 2-3 minutes. While you are soaking your reed in your mouth you should put together your instrument. In order to do that you first get the bell, the very bottom piece that looks like a bell, and the lower joint, the one that has keys on the side and towards the bottom, and connect it. It is also always good to have cork grease, which is just petroleum, that way if your pieces are not going together very easily you put it on the cork. Now you're going to get the upper joint and connect it to the other piece that you just put together. Next, comes the barrel then the mouthpiece. Now, get you're ligature. Put it on the mouthpiece and put your reed in between your mouthpiece and ligature. Put it to where there is only a sliver of black left. The reed is going to face you while the rest of the clarinet is going to face away from you. Now, time to play. You will put your left hand on top. Make it to where all the keys are easily accessed. Put your lower lip on top of your bottom teeth. Put your mouth on the mouthpiece and blow. You now know how to play the clarinet. By the way, it is always good to have a fingering chart around, which you can get at your local music store.

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