Equipment List

Choose a saxophone from one of the following brands: Selmer, Conn, Yamaha, Yanigasawa, Keilwerth, Vito. These manufacturers all have a student model and a professional model. Antiqua Winds is a newer make on the market in the last 10 years. The brass seems a little thin and could make the horn prone to bending. However, I have had many students use them with no problems.

Choose a clarinet from one of the following brands: Vito, Buffet, Selmer, W. SCHREIBER & SÉHNE, Noblet and LeBlanc. Many student models are plastic or hard rubber. A wood clarinet produces a much warmer tone.

To insure that the horn you rent or purchase is in good working order, have one of the store staff play the horn for you and demonstrate its playability. You might ask her or him to play a full range chromatic scale up and down a few times. It doesn't have to be fast, just playable. It can be very discouraging to attempt to create your first tone on an instrument and be stymied by a leaky pad or bent key.

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