The clarinet is played with a reed, which is a very thin piece of wood that vibrates when you blow through it. A relative youngster in the orchestra, the clarinet is only about 300 years old!

Born in Waveland, Miss., in 1892, Dodds began playing clarinet at 17. He studied under clarinetists Lorenzo Tio and Charlie ...

The clarinet is a musical instrument belonging to the woodwind family ... and fingerings as high as A7 exist. How to play The sound is made by blowing a stream of air into the mouthpiece (known as ...