![]() Clarinetists tend to overlook this, perhaps because clarinets are a dime a dozen compared to Strads and Steinways. The danger of the equipment game is chasing your tail: if you constantly adjust your way of playing to suit new clarinet toys, how will you ever find the setup that liberates your fundamental voice? On the other hand, I believe that the best instruments have personalities of their own. (I’m reminded of Meryl Streep’s monologue in The Devil Wears Prada shooting holes through the idea that choosing an unpretentious sweater exempts oneself from the fashion industry.) And yet, even this minimalist approach is indeed a choice of equipment, one that necessarily impacts the way you blow. It’s for this reasonthat some players spurn the shop talk altogether, choosing to devote their energies to honing their skills on a no-frills setup instead of chasing the Holy Grail of clarinet equipment.
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