Christopher Guest

I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, 'What do you want to play?' I said the drums, and my mother said, 'No, you don't. You don't want to play the drums.' So I said, 'Maybe the trumpet would be cool.' And my mother said, 'I don't think so.' And then the clarinet was handed to me.

British Director

Eliza Scanlen

I remember being a kid and wanting to be so many different things. There was even one point that I wanted to be a clarinet player, and I had never even touched a clarinet, in my life. And then, I wanted to be a chef. And then, I wanted to be a vet. It's hard to decide who you're gonna be, as weird as that sounds, because we all do it.

Australian Actress

Cynthia Robinson

I played the flute in elementary school, but when I got into high school, they didn't have any flutes; they gave me a clarinet and said, 'Play it in the same way, just hold in a different position.' I really didn't care much for it.

American Musician

Diane Kruger

I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.

German Model

Nile Rodgers

I used to play flute and clarinet at school, and although I wasn't thinking about making a living or getting a pay cheque, I already knew I was going to play music all my life.

Sara Zarr

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If we'd had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

American Writer

Lee Konitz

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

Norman Wisdom

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

English Comedian

Anat Cohen

I'm helping people think the clarinet is cool.

Nadine Coyle

Irish Musician

The clarinet is part of the woodwind family in orchestras and bands, often featured for its versatile sound.

Woodwind Family

Clarinet solos are common in jazz and classical music, showcasing the instrument's expressive range.

Solo Performances

In an orchestra, the clarinet blends with other instruments while also having moments to shine solo.

Orchestral Role

 and we would visit there all the time and I've seen these sax players too sitting on this tree playing their heart out and getting money for it and I thought that's going to be me someday I'm going to come down here and play in the rolling streets and so that's kind of one of my life streams and so in fifth grade I played the clarinet just step up to the saxophone when they

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 in these places. But the thing is, you will notice there's a very large gap in the middle. And in that gap, there are many things. There are planets and toasts and volcanoes and clouds and clarinets and bubbles and dolphins and all sorts of things that make up our everyday life.

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 So I brush my teeth twice a day, and what if we had a toothbrush that tastes like candy, and when the taste of candy ran out, you'd know it's time to change your toothbrush? Finally, I have a thing for the keys on a flute or a clarinet.

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 right then the vegetable guy comes out of the kitchen with a bunch of clarinets made of our carrots that we were trying to sell then okay maybe this is bad but I feel like the guy who loves free market capitalism from the conservative

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 few notes were the middle C the easiest note the first note they teach you and I realize listening to that that I had never actually played the clarinet I had never once in my entire life played a single note that sounded like

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 You can see the mayhem continues, and there's, you know, there were no clarinets and trumpets and flutes and violins. Here's a piece that has an even more unusual, more peculiar instrumentation.

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 but in a clarinet’s lowest register, the odd-numbered partials resonate most strongly. The strength of various partials is part of what gives each instrument its unique sonic signature.

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 It's what makes a child play a violin at home, while his father works in his carpentry. It's what makes a little girl play the clarinet at home,

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