What instument do you play and why?

[The A-Team]

I play electric guitar because i like to ROCK!(LOL anyone else love it when george lopez says that!! What a great guy.) I play because i enjoy playing Metal and performing (especially death metal) is very fun, with lots of energy and crowd interaction.

[MissShona]

Originally Posted by square peg

Question: How similar is the saxophone to a clarinet in terms of finger positions?

Pretty different (the flute and saxophone are more similar). The clarinet employs and octave key, just like the saxophone. However, one note fingered in the lower register changes to a different note when the octave key is pressed (actually, I think the correct term would be a "register" key, but I'm not sure). Meanwhile on the saxophone, the note remains the same...just becomes one octave higher. Also, the clarinet employs more trill and auxiliary keys for sharps and flats than the saxophone does.

Overall though, I don't think it's a big deal; you sort of get used to it. With woodwinds, all of them are pretty different in their fingering methods. The embouchure between the clarinet and saxophone are more similar than the flute and saxophone. Personally I feel that is a bigger obstacle than fingering.

[KanniJay]

I play MP3 PLAYER! I 'play' all sooooongs and am very skilled, too! No one can beat that!

[BigSwede]

I´m a drummer.
I started to play drums because I wanted to be like Peter Criss when I was a child.