And his friends said that the clarinet lessons would never pay off.

Apparently you've never seen a clarinet. Or flute for that matter.

Well yes it's a valid musical instrument. So is the kazoo.

The act of playing it is very different from playing piano and is much less technically skilful than learning to play the flute. I play clarinet, saxophone, flute and piano. They each have a different level of difficulty. Piano is the easiest, and clarinet is the hardest. The very hardest instruments to learn are the double reeds - oboe, cor anglais, and bassoon. The very easiest are the percussion family - drums, piano, all other keyboards.

I guess this is why I'm so opinionated about this...

I wonder if it would be possible to rig it to make noise. Moisten and tape the reed to the mouthpiece, and depress the keys that would best suit the velocity of the instrument. I guess you'd also have to attach rockets so that they don't stop the bell. >> ^Yogi:

I thought it was gonna make a noise...there was no point to this!

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>> ^flechette:

Wasn't expecting Owen Wilson to be playing the oboe.
Also, awesome!


Clarinet, if you're talking about 2:15

Nice clarinet *promote

sifted because atara posted Dinosaur Ballet which only uses the opening 40 sec, before the orchestra comes in, and i thought someone might like to hear the rest.

from the wiki:
The Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major (K. 488) is a musical composition for piano and orchestra written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was finished, according to Mozart's own catalogue, on March 2, 1786, around the time of the premiere of his opera, The Marriage of Figaro. It was one of three subscription concerts given that spring and was probably played by Mozart himself at one of these.

The second, slow movement, in ternary form, is impassioned and somewhat operatic in tone. The piano begins alone with a theme characterized by unusually wide leaps. This is the only movement by Mozart in F sharp minor. The dynamics are soft throughout most of the piece. The middle of the movement contains a brighter section in A major announced by flute and clarinet that Mozart would later use to introduce the trio "Ah! taci ingiusto core!" in his opera Don Giovanni.

Now I have a reason to practice the clarinet again. Yes! Mom will be proud.

>> ^swampgirl:
There's an old clarinet up in the top of my closet. You think I can get it to get my kids to clean the house?


If they are teens, parents playing instruments, especially playing them poorly, can be a keen motivating factor.

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Excuse me, I've got to go practice the clarinet.

Sexiest, clarinet solo, ever.

That's kind of disturbing to see Vinnie Jones shredding on the Clarinet.