Also, if you hit the reed too hard with your tongue, it can produce a squeak. Finally, playing on dry reeds or with incorrect reed or ligature placement on your mouthpiece can also lead to squeaking. Make sure to keep your reeds moistened and place the reed and ligature on your mouthpiece correctly. Hand Position. If you or a student have a difficult time covering the tone holes of the clarinet, it can cause squeaking. Be sure to practice and teach proper hand position, especially early on with young students, so that they do not develop bad habits.
If your younger students have fine fingers or small hands or both , it can be especially difficult for them to cover the tone holes. Practice in front of a mirror so you can check your finger position. For younger students, check out my article on a specific finger problem which can cause squeaks many beginning students face when they try to cross the break for the first time. Mixed signals. You can also intentionally use these mixed signals to create some cool extended techniques, such as bugle calls and harmonic overtone exercises.
Check your articulation. Tonguing with improper placement or too much pressure affects the air flow, thus causing the clarinet to squeak. Imbalanced reed. If your reed is improperly balanced meaning the amount of cane is not equal on both sides , then there is a higher likelihood of squeaking.
Always make sure to break in and balance your reeds to create your best sound, minus the squeaks! Reeds could certainly be an issue, especially if you've changed reed strength or brand recently or the reeds you've been using are suddenly different. But if you've only had this problem recently and haven't changed anything, the most likely cause is a leaky pad and the fix replace the pad or pads or straighten any bent key rods is very easy for a competent repair tech.
Author: Ed Palanker Date: Sounds like a little leak. Check the screw on the top of the A throat tone key and back it off a little. If it's even a tiny bit to low it opens the key slightly. If that's not it have it checked out by a repair person, it doesn't take much of a leak to cause this problem.
ESP eddiesclarinet. If the screw is the problem and setting it correctly leaves it easy to turn, put a dab of clear nail polish over it. Check also for cracks. A small one one near the top can have the same effect as a leaky pad.
Author: Paul Aviles Date: For a problem that seems related to the physical lower part of the clarinet I tend to look down there first for a problem. One easy fix may be that the 1-and-1 Bb linkage may not be quite right, causing the pad at the top of the lower joint to not come down all the way check this by rotating the linkage off set and see if you still have the problem.
Chances are also good that this particular spring is too loose if you only need to just barely touch this key with your right pinky to get it open Author: Bob Bernardo Date: Repad the horn and check for a nick on the facing of your mouthpiece. If there is a nick on the mouthpiece kindly email me. Needless to say, have a repairman check out the horn and perhaps replace a few pads. It shouldn't cost too much unless the repairman recommends an overhaul. Are you talking about this C and the notes around it, or this one?
If it's the lower-pitched group, then I agree that the screw governing the A-Ab crossover keys may be the easy fix. But if it's higher-pitched group of notes, the real middle of the clarinet's range, then I think the problem is probably a pad leak, on "long" B or C. Typically when a leak gets started on one of those pads, it affects the notes above the break first, while the lower notes are still okay. The third-space C will squeak while you can still get a good note out of the F below the staff.
Another possibility is that when you put your clarinet together, maybe when you add the bell, you're holding the lower section in a way that puts pressure on one of those two lowest keys. Maybe that key has been pushed out of alignment just enough to let in some air, even though the pad is still good. FYI the C below the staff is called middle C, this is because it lies in the middle of the treble and bass clef.
I believe that you are talking about staff C. Are these difficult notes? I'm still trying to find out exactly why: perhaps my fingers don't go down smoothly, or maybe my embouchure slips, or my air flow changes.
If you look straight at the clarinet mouthpiece, you should be able to see just a hairline of the mouthpiece above the reed. Also, make sure that the reed is centered in the middle of the mouthpiece, because if it is too far to one side or the other, a squeak can occur.
If you are not sure about the condition of your instrument, ask your teacher or consult a good repairman. If one of your fingers does not cover the appropriate tone hole, the air leaks out and a squeak will result. Watch out for your right hand fingers, especially your low G finger -- that tone hole is significantly larger than the others.
Also, watch out for your left hand thumb hole -- it is also large, and if your thumb slides off slightly, you can produce a big squeak!
A firm embouchure is very important to producing a good clarinet sound, but avoid using too much jaw pressure. If you bite into the reed, you will squeak.
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