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The Science of Clarinet Sound: What Your Mouth Is Really Doing (And Why It Changes Everything)

What if everything you were taught about "blowing" the clarinet was making you sound worse and tenser th...

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What Robert Marcellus Really Sounded Like and Why Your Teeth Have More to Do With It Than You Think

There is a story Ron Odrich tells about a lesson with Daniel Bonade that most clarinet players h...

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I recently had the privilege of sitting down with Larry Guy, a clarinetist whose career spans Broadway, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, and the Joffrey Ballet. But what makes Larry ...

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