Woodwind Instruments

finger an A with the left hand (the first two keys your fingers are on), and add the last of the three rectangular keys with the palm of your right hand, located near the hook. Fingering diagrams are extremely helpful in these situations.

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WRONG! you use both of your pointer fingers.

C is the note after the note where you have a space in your fingers, and E is all of them down apart from the bottom one. (Keep the space at A and only the buttons. Not the different keys.) For a higher octave, hit the octave key by the thumb.

An oboe is very difficult to tune as the reed can only be moved in and out a little way making little difference. This is why an orchestra tunes to the oboe. Using a tuner or your ear if your musical you can pull out the reed to sharpen the pitch or in to flatten it.

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I personally play a Yamaha clarinet, and have owned it for nearly 8 and a half years, and have had hardly any problems with it whatsoever. I also own a Yamaha saxophone which is second hand but still in very good condition.

I have also played a Jupiter clarinet, and they are quite nice to play. :)

Typically the flared end of a brass instrument (trumpet, coronet, trombone, sousaphone) is called the "bell".

An alto sax varies in prices depending where you are. It also depends on if you want a professional alto sax or a student alto sax. A professional alto sax usually costs about 2,000 to 3,000 dollars. A student alto sax will usually cost about 250 to 1,000 dollars. So make sure you really want your own instrument because it is quite an investment.

The unique souNd is caused by the reed and the material of which the clarinet is made. This is why a wooden clarinet sounds nicer and tends to resonate more than a plastic one and that is why all professional clarinetists use wooden not plastic clarinets.

The AMEB (Australian Musical Examinations Board) has a number of grades for practical clarinet examination ranging from preliminary (less than grade 1 ) to FMusA (Musical Luminary) After prelimnary the grades range from 1 - 8 tan AMusA (Assosciate Diploma of Music in Australia) LMus (Licentiate Diploma of Music) and then for musical luminaries FMusA ( Fellowship Diploma of Music ) There are other exams you must take however to receive certificates for the practical exams taken Eg To gain you AMusA diploma you need to have completed Gr5 music theory or musicianship. International Clarinet Soloist - BUFFET R13 IS THE BEST

hey, its simple after awhile, when people hear me playing they ask me if i waz born with a clarinet in my hands. all u need to do is devote about two hours a day, six days a week for awhile, of just practicing outside of school. i mean I've been doing this and in the 6th grade i was put in the freshman jazz band which was loads of fun, so just do that and you'll go pro

i also play the clarinet and like the persons answer above, you really have to devote time every now and then to get a good tone. I was in the honors band festival for 8th grade and it is for the best of the best. That just goes to show what practice can do for anybody :) for some like me it will come natural though..just put effort and time and you will be successful

Not very big at all, compared to tenor and bari saxes. Its about a little under two feet long. I'm not very tall at all (5'1) and can play easily. I could also play when I was 4'11 so I hope I could help

Left hand: Index, Ring, Thumb

Right hand: Second Trill Key

Behind the strings there is a group of 8 musicians (minus Piccolo, Cor Anglais, Contrabassoon and Bass Clarinet):

Clar 2.....Clar 1.....Bassoon 1...Bassoon 2

Flute 2...Flute 1....Oboe 1.........Oboe 2

.....................Strings

...................Conductor

Hope this helped. :)

Saxophones.

Piccolo clarinet

From the smallest to the biggest, here it is:

~ Soprano clarinet

~ Basset clarinet

~ Basset horn

~ Alto clarinet

~ Bass clarinet

~ Contra-alto clarinet

~ Contrabass clarinet

The clarinet family consists of the E-flat soprano, B-flat which is most familiar. There is also an A clarinet used in orchestral music. On the lower end of the spectrum are the alto, bass and contrabass clarinets.

The Oboe has a double reed, which are two reeds basically put together and held by twine. These reeds are very hard to play and take a while to learn.

The Alto Saxophone Has 23 keys although other saxes may differ.

Double tonguing on the oboe is quite hard, but think of say some syllables to the effect of "dug-a-da". After you do this, try increasing the speed. I must warn you thought, the majority of the time, the reed honks. Good Luck!

An oboe or a bassoon are the only instruments I'm aware of with double reeds. Clarinets and saxophones (all varieties) have a single reed.

Saxophones can have double or sing reeds.

Yes, you can get a scholarship for playing the oboe. Many colleges give scholarships for musicians and the schools are always in need for rare instruments like oboes, tubas, and bassoon, to name a few.

An oboe, is a lot harder to make a good sound, and the clarinet is a little bit easier. an oboe has a double reed, and a clarinet has a regular reed.

You can listen to them both on Youtube to compare the sound. This choice really has to be yours.

Edit: Oboists are usually harder to find, and thus are more in demand, especially in college music programs. You could have a fine shot at a music scholarship as an oboist.

oboes are a very high pitched instrument that very few people know about. i play clarinet and my dream is to play oboe i have no reason why, oboes use a form of vibrato and are a c instrument

hope this givesyou and idea

i am a trombonist. if you are looking into playing one your will need lessons but anyway you play the trombone like this: you buzz with your lips; you hold your lips together and blow. depending on the pitch your will hold your lips together tighter, resulting in higher sound, or loosen your lips, causing a lower sound. you buzz into the mouth peice to make the sound there are 7 slide positions on the trombone, each you can play more than one note. I use the bell (the thing that the sound comes out) as a marker to where the positions are, as they can be hard to memorise, i am only an ammature trombonist but i have been playing for over 1 and a half years now so i know what i am talking about

First be find out if you are about the same amount flat on an open pitch like second line G and a closed pitch like third line C. Try several notes at the top of the clarinet (open fingerings) and several at the bottom closed fingerings). If the top, open notes are noticeably flatter than the bottom, closed notes, you could benefit from a shorter tuning barrel.

If that's not the case, and it probably isn't, then you probably have some work to to do on your embouchure, especially if you haven't been playing long. Building strength in your embouchure will raise your pitch a bit.

One final possibility - only if you are a solid, experienced player - is to try some different mouthpieces.