Klarinet Archive - Posting 000379.txt from 1997/03

From: thehat@-----.org
Subj: low B in bass cl.part
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 16:23:59 -0500

In a message dated 03-11-97 INTERNET: peter.stoll=UTO wrote to ** ALL **:
Ip> I just wanted to highlight a question buried in my last post about
Ip> low extension bass clarinets; I recently saw a part that seemed to
Ip> call for a low B, under the 2nd ledger line of the bass clef (looks
Ip> like a low G in treble clef). Is there such a note, even on extended
Ip> bass clarinets? It wasn't just one B, either, and you had to play
Ip> around this pitch (I don't think a paper towel liner-as-extension
Ip> would work. It was a piece called "Air" by Ivana Loudova, written for
Ip> Josef Horak.

The only such instrument I know of is Dennis Smylie's old Buffet, with an
extension built by the Haynes Flute company for Mazzeo. It goes down to low b.
It is quite an interesting, and probably one of a kind, contraption.

David Hattner
clarinetist-at-large, NYC
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