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Answers: Does the clarinet have holes or buttons to press on for notes?
for example, the recorder has holes but the flute has buttons.

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A clarinet has holes, rings, and keys.

The reason there are keys is that there are more holes on a clarinet in order to play all possible notes in all of the octaves than you have fingers. Some of those keys and rings close more than one hole while others close a hole that is very far away from where your fingers are.

The older clarinet ancestors (antiques from the Baroque and Renaissance) only had holes and then someone decided that if a few keys were added, we could get more notes or better tuning.

The soprano recorder only has holes because it's small and your fingers can reach them all - take a look at a tenor or bass recorder and you'll notice keys that close holes that your fingers wouldn't be able to reach without a key.

On a professional level flute, you will notice that there are holes in many of the keys. It's the same principal as the recorder but using a key system to make playing easier. I have a flute from the days of Mozart that has no keys at all - just holes. It's very hard to play in tune and to play the full chromatic scale.

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here are both buttons and holes, but you call them keys i think

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They are holes, and they are called keys.

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it has both but its mainly buttons

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both buttons(they are called keys) and some holes.

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There is a combination of both. Some keys have holes and other keys are actually buttons. If you were to play a first finger A then you would be pressing a button... However, if you were playing other notes such as F,E,D, etc. in the lower register, then you would be pressing open holed keys.

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Trust people when they say that a clarinet has holes and buttons, you're the one asking the question and the ppl on here are giving you the right information, so don't question them when they're right.

Heres a pic of a clarinet:
http://www.tuftl.tufts.edu/mie/research/...

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