I never really play Clarinet Polka. I know the melody, and I have taught it to a student here or there, but I haven’t ever worked it up or played it publicly (before tonight.) It’s not that I don’t like it, or think it’s cool. I guess it has just sat there on the periphery waiting to be played. 
I almost worked it up in Bb to continue my streak of tunes in flat keys, but I was tired, and decided to take the easy way out and work it up in G. I hope you enjoy it.
Clarinet Polka From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to Polskie Radio Program I, the music was created in Austria by a composer named A. Humpfat.[2] Other sources claim that The Clarinet Polka was written under the name Dziadunio Polka by the Polish composer Karol Namysłowski.[3]
Clarinet Polka according to Fiddler’s Companion
CLARINET POLKA. American, Canadian; Polka. USA; Pa., New York, Missouri. B Flat Major (‘A’ part), E Flat Major (‘B’ part) & F Major (‘C’ part) {Phillips, version #1}: G Major (‘A’ part), D Major (‘B’ part) & C Major (‘C’ part) {Phillips, version #2}. Standard tuning. AA’BBAA’CCAA’. In the repertories of dance fiddler Ralph Sauers, Buffalo Valley, Pa., and hammered dulcimer player Paul Van Arsdale (North Tonawanda, N.Y.) who added a fourth part to the tune. Source for notated version: Mark O’Connor [Phillips/version #1]. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; pgs. 341 & 342 (two versions). Greenhays GR 710, John McCutcheon ‑ “Fine Times at our House” (1982). MSOTFA 007, Charlie Walden – “Draggin’ the Bow” (1985). RCA Victor LCP 1001, Ned Landry and his New Brunswick Lumberjacks ‑ “Bowing the Strings with New Landry.”
