I forgot about piano...and i wasn`t saying that i know everything cuz i know i don`t. it`s just that my teachers said that there was no way, but it`s ok. whatever. just wanted to make sure you understood, i don`t think i know everything.

I wasn`t trying to insult you, honest. I was just trying to prove my point. Anyway, now you can go and prove your teacher wrong! Telling teachers they`re wrong is always fun LOL!

...flutes can do it to?

go Rachel!

Go Rachel?

Do any one of you know how a piano work? Actually a pianos tune comes from small hammers hammering on strings, so in a way it also is a string instrument, so, there we go, only string instruments can play several tunes a once (any tunes).

I know how it works, thanks. Technically, it is a percussion instrument, because the little hammers inside hit the strings. But let`s not turn this into a discussion about whether the piano is a string or a percussion instrument.

Jules- the clarinet CAN play more than one note at once. I have seen it done, and done it myself. So it is not only string instruments.

Is a guitar also a percussion instrument if you use a pick?

I`ve been a clarinet player since junior high school in 1974. I`ve noticed harmonics, of course, the only musical use I`ve made of them is for aural color, much much dominated by the DC component--i.e., the note I`m playing.

You can get all the harmonic you want by adjusting your throat, mouth and embrochure in accordance with the proper "attitude".

Dark, full and sad for DANNY BOY. Ethereal for Colors of the Wind and many religious tunes. Perky for the Rainbow Brite Theme Song. You can train yourself so that adopting an attitude triggers an adjustment in your body, making it conform to the style you want to play in.

You`re basically switching the "facing" of your mouth, nose, throat and diaphram from something like a "Selmer C*" toward a "Vandoran 5RV."

I am in grade 8 and have been playing the clarinet for about a year and a half. I think it is a lot of fun. My music teacher says that I am one of the best clarinet players in grade 8. I am trying to look for Christmas music that I can practice, but I can`t seem to find music that you don`t have to buy.
I must get going now.
¤MERRY CHRISTMAS¤

I can produce 3 notes on tuba.

Kinda funny that such an old topic was dredged up, but my teacher demoed multiphonics during my music theory class today on the flute. She`s not even a flute major, but it is interesting just the same.

I`ve unintentionally hit multiphonics, lol. Say..about a week before contest? Was a combination of a key gone sticky and other factors.

i can`t get multiphonics =( but it`s possible on the clarinet. i just can`t play em.

sometimes on the bassoon i try to overblow and i get both the overblown note and the note i started on. does that count? hahahah

Go to that link that was given. Get out your clarinet, and try them. I`ll be willing to be that you`ll be able to play at least one of those multiphonics very well. I personally have only done multiphonics on saxophone, but it`s my main instrument. Now, I might try to do them on clarinet.

I have heard a few pieces where they`re used. They`re out there, you just have to search. If you can`t find any music, just amaze your friends with your new talent.

Is it my imagination or do some people not read the remarks from people who know more about the clarinet than them? Jen and Jules seem to be ignoring Rachel`s comments about multiphonics and continuing to argue on a point they know nothing about - but then, that`s standard for Jen...

To back up Rachel`s argument, yes multiphonics ARE possible and have been quite common in the last half a century. Although I have trouble on my R13, I have heard my teacher play them on my clarinet - you just have to concentrate on getting the lower note to speak and usually the other note just comes, albeit weak and breathy a lot of the time. In fact, Paul Harvey wrote Etudes on Themes of Gershwin which asks for the player to do multiphonics on the last note of Summertime. If the high school students still want to argue, take it up with both of us!