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Clarinet PNG Images
Download free clarinet png transparent images. Clarinet clipart and illustrations. Here, if you like, you can explore and these high-quality transparent icons and awesome pictures to decorate your school projects, or if you are really inspired, like Squidward, the walls of your room. You can download these png format images of clarinets that already have…
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Best Ensembles For Clarinet
Sometimes you just need a list of the best ensembles to work through and know that you have mastered the clarinet by some standard. Some of these are simple in beauty yet challenging to accomplish, either way, here are the best of the best ensembles in my estimation. If you have conquered these you are…
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Oklahoma City area Clarinetist you should know
There are so many great things about the Oklahoma City professional clarinet scene. The Musicians who are leading the charge are listed below with a short Bio. We are going alphabetical here, and being a Zumwalt, I understand how unfair it is. I am sure that I have missed some and would love to include…
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A Quick Way to Improve Your Clarinet Performance: Improve Your Reeds!
It’s crazy, isn’t it? Your performances (and often your mental state) are often entirely dependent upon a little piece of wood! If your reed doesn’t respond well, it can ruin your whole performance (and often your confidence right along with it!) The good news is that understanding a bit more about why reeds wear out…
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The Clarinet in Jazz History
The jazz clarinet was one of the most important instruments in American jazz at the beginning of the 1900s. From the origins of Dixieland in New Orleans through the height of its popularity in the Swing Era to today’s contemporary performers, the clarinet has been recognized among both musicians and the public as a major…
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A Clarinetist’s Most Important Skill
It’s the one clarinet skill you can’t do without. It’s the clarinet skill on which every other skill is built. It’s a force that moves mountains, builds skyscrapers, and turns 98-pound weaklings into Arnold Schwarzeneggers. Table of Contents Enough mystery already. What is this skill? Objectives: the key to clarinetist success Setting goals We’re going…
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The Vintage Silver Clarinet Story
Metal clarinets were in production from 1895-1965 with the majority being made between 1924-1939 for the American market. Attempts to make a metal clarinet before Agostino Rampone invented the double-walled design in 1879 were apparently useless experiments. The Rampone design was put forward by Conn with considerable success. Table of Contents Conn Wonder Double-walled Silver…
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Coronavirus Hygiene Advice for Your Clarinet
Many diseases like measles, chickenpox, and staphylococcus infections are often spread by saliva. Since there is no casual way of knowing whether or not someone has the disease-causing germs/virus, we are all responsible to protect ourselves and take these proactive steps to reduce the spread of disease. Regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and recent developments…
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Eric Dolphy Out To Lunch! Album Review
I’m all out of superlatives! Recorded for the Blue Note label in February of 1964, Out to Lunch! is viewed by many as Eric Dolphy‘s masterpiece, the “essential” recording. For Dolphy, an artist possessed of an incredible musical mind with a voracious appetite for new musical forms and expressions, Out To Lunch! proved to be…
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Awesome Artie Shaw Songs and Selected Discography
Artie Shaw Songs This is your starting place for an introduction to the music of Artie Shaw and his quintessential swing sound that defined a generation. Table of Contents begin the beguine Nightmare Nonstop flight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFZhAKoZvaQ Concerto for Clarinet Frenesi Artie Shaw Vinyl Albums You Need Artie Shaw Books You Should Read The Artie Shaw…