are a series of alternate fingerings used for the throat tone notes on a clarinet. They improve the tone and tuning and make the transition between registers more seamless (and easier as well).

This is a very variable register of the clarinet in terms of pitch and tone quality.Since they are short tube notes (made with note many holes closed) any change in your embouchure, tongue position or air pressure will be much more noticeable than it would be with a long note (meaning a note fingered with all the fingers down.)Resonant fingerings have the additional benefit of making these notes more resistant and therefore more stable. Most of the resonant fingerings also lower the pitch of the throat tones, which are often sharp.In the throat tone range the clarinet can easily go from being very flat to very sharp on any note depending on how loudly the note is played.

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Partner Organizations: New Horizons Band Program, 1st Baptist Church' Cole’s Woodwinds

Prince George launches innovative music program for adults who wish to learn to play a concert band instrument and play in a

band

Who?

Adults with no (or long ago) music experience

Time:5:30-7:30 pm Mondays

First rehearsal is Dec 5 but you can start any time.

Read Reviews of our shows/presentations/clinics. These are excerpts from letters we have received from students, teachers and administrators.(students first names only for privacy reasons)

(From our Woodwinds Presentation for elementary schools)

People tend to be unaware of what is required from the musicians to make a concert possible. Putting aside the many years of (expensive) study (more than a doctor) and the high cost of instruments (including repair, replacement,maintenance and insurance) here is a breakdown of our last gig.

 Note that almost all the work involved was concrete musican work ; rehearsing, composing etc. Setting up the gig took less than 30 minutes. Organizing the music took more time since new music was written and research had to be done, but rehearsing and performance took 83% of the time and only 1.4% of the full time was really administration. Yet most arts groups spend 56% or more of their budget on administration and as little as possible on the actual product, no wonder the arts are in trouble.