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Hiya, I was here about a year ago but left. Now I'm back and wish to say hi again! I've been playing clarinet for two years (yeah, I don't have that much experience >.<). I'm a freshmen in high school. I'm last chair in band(but I'm in the Wind Symphony, not sure if that counts for anything). The marching band at our school is decent, and we have a fairly decent amount of clarinets(uh, I think 15?). I have a Buffet R-13, and his name is Sebastian. smile

I'm Kari! i've played clarinet for the last 3 going on 4 years. ^^

Hey there, fellow clarinetists! I'm a sophomore in high school and have been playing since fifth grade. I have a lovely wooden clarinet that I've had for a year, but is still nameless sad . Any ideas?

(Sorry for the double psot, but nobody has posted in like forever)

So earlier I wrote here that my plastic clari was messed up, where the two keys were too close and gtting stuck. Well, first tried bending it myself, but the key was too thick. So i asked my parents if we couldt ake tit to the shop. As usual, their answer was "no, use your other one"(My other one being my wooden, the need of using it being a parade we are dong in less then 2 weeks)
So, without anything else to do, I decided I'd try taking the keys off and seeing if there was anythign pushing the keys together. Well, there wasn't, but I noticed that when i went and screwed them back in, they were fine up until the last couple of turns. I also noticed both screws were extremely tight inside their holes, and i actually had to get a small tool to grasp them to pull them out and it took a bit of pushing to put them back.
I decided i would try swiching the screws to see if maybe that helped the size problem. Turns out it helped both the size problem and the closeness problem. The keys are still pretty close, but theres enough space between them that i can play it fine without squeaking or hesitating between B and C. Which is really good cause one of the parade sogns we are doing trills between those. I still want to take it in, but I'm pretty proud of myself that i found even just a temporary solution^-^

Hi! I am Briana and I have played the clarinet for 3 years and we dont have chairs because I am in Middle School.

Hey guys I need some help:

Well, now that i finally managed to figure out my allstate etudes(luckily I still have a week to perfect it) I need a new challenge. Allstate results won't be posted until maybe the following week if I'm lucky, so I need a challenge until then.

I figure this would be a good place to ask if anyone could suggest anything challenging to paly; you guys are fellow clarinets and can therefore judge challenging vs overly easy. I really want a piece I have to work at, so the harder the better. Also, my parents have this anonoying mentality that sheet music is a useless expense when I have school band so they refuse to actually buy me music, so I would prefer a piece that I can get on the internet for free. Unless someone knows of a good book full of different difficult pieces. My parents are better at buying full books but bsolutely refuse single pieces.

By the way; anyone got any suggestions to tell a certain stuck-up overdramatic clarinet player that she needs to stop yelling at me when I gently correct her? (when she does so to me, rather rudely, all the time. On stuff I'm actually playing right and she is playing wrong, as emphasized by the bd in later reiews of the section)

The Artistic Studies Book 1 edited by David Hite has all the Rose studies in it. They're a bunch of great études to work at. It's where the all-state études come from here in Texas. The two fast ones were on page 75 and page 88. They're difficult to perfect. This book is used by a ton of clarinetists, so I really recommend buying it.
This is what it looks like: http://www.amazon.com/Artistic-Studies-French-School-Clarinet/dp/B000O8V868/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1299728526&sr=8-3