I just wanted to know, what kind of clarinets do you have for playing in the marching team? I guess you have to spend a lot of time playing in an open air - so probably it would spoil the wooden clarinets. Probably a plastic clarinet is the one for a marching team?! please tel me, what clarinet do you have for playing in a marching team!

I play on a plastic Vito clarinet with a 3 1/2 Rico reed. I find that this is a pretty good combination for marching season, bc it`s not like you`re trying to sound like you do in concert band. My Vito was actually my first clarinet and it`s a very well-made plastic clarinet. I love it.

I dont really think it matters. Like she said, its not like concert band. One clarinet is not going to make a difference, but if you like wooden clarinets, I had a friend with one, and she sounded fine.

For marching band I play a Selmer CL200 (wooden student model) with a Vandoren 2Tone B45Dot mouthpiece, Rovner Light Lig, and Vandoren 3 1/2 V12 reeds. For concert though, I`ll use my Buffet R13 w/ same mouthpiece set up.

the recomended brand to use is the plastic clarinets because the open air won`t ruin them but they sound HORRIBLE! So some clarinet`s [mostly the stupid one`s] decide to go out on the feild with wooden clarinets and end up ruining them later on.

One common major no-no: playing a wooden clarinet in marching band. I`ve read all these wooden clarinet care guides, and it almost always says to store wood clarinets in rooms with humidifiers...With the changing weather conditions, a wooden one would definitely crack on the field. Plastic clarinets last longer. I always wondered why the plastic clarinet companies said that their instruments "strong" and "durable" in the descriptions. I found out one day in marching band when my drum major was looking at my clarinet like it was acid. He came over and asked suspiciously, "Is that wood?" I was like yea and confused. I had just gotten a used Buffet R13, so what was wrong with it, ya know? Then he said (a bit too late) you can`t march with a wood clarinet `cause it`ll crack. I inspected it that night and found a large crack that was definitely not there before. How lovely...Anyway, now I use a Kohlert 5119.

I use a plastic clarinet when marching, but I am looking for a wooden one. I would never use a wooden clarinet for marching band because it could really damage the clarinet because of the changes in the weather and, mostly in the humidity, or you could march in the rain which could do a number one the clarinet.