But I'm sure we're agreed that both clarinet and flute have their own distinct and very enjoyable differencesOn 2002-10-16 19:20, MarkCC wrote:
When you play a simple flute, it's a very intimate instrument. You're handling the wood directly. You can feel the wind under your fingers. There's no *machinery* in the way.
Now, when I play my clarinet, I miss the feeling of the wind under my fingers. But even with the seven uncapped fingerholes on the clarinet, you just don't get that tactile sensation, because the holes are so small, and you're always both covering a hole *and* pressing on a ring which pushes a lever which lowers a pad over another hole or two somewhere else.
It makes the playing the flute so different, and so wonderful.
-Mark
Mary ( another former Clarinetist )