Quotes from Jack Brymer

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.

Every clarinet has its own particular bag of tricks, which must be exploited and explored.

The clarinet in its most perfect form is a strange beast--if it is imperfect, it is also completely untamable.

A good hollow bone, tapped smartly by another, can be made to emit a most satisfactory note of recognisable pitch; and the effect of tapping a row of empty skull-bones was no doubt one of musical man's earliest ghoulish delights.