Jennifer Blackwell: Didgeridoos and Lawnmowers: Pedagogical Approaches for Teaching Beginning Clarinet and Saxophone

Do your clarinets sound like didgeridoos? Do your saxophones sound like lawnmowers? As closely related instruments, saxophone and clarinet are often treated identically in pedagogical texts and university training. While there are many commonalities between them, teaching young clarinetists and saxophonists with the same information often results in less-than ideal sound qualities from developing students….