Klarinet Archive - Posting 000192.txt from 1997/09

From: jayager@-----.edu (Jeremy Alexander Yager)
Subj: Re: bass clarinet
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 00:14:49 -0400

On Sep 4, 5:16pm, Laura M Ruck wrote:
> Subject: bass clarinet
> Hello everybody!!!!!!!
>
> Just a question. Does the bass clarinet have a low Eb key? I am asking
> this because I am a Bb clarinet player, and my band instructor asked me
> to give a bass clarinet lesson. I have never played a bass clarinet
> before. I'm in 10th grade, I am 1st chair, and I've been playing for 7
> years. Anyway, our two bass clarinet players just switched from tenor sax
> (I think). Just curious! Thanks!
>-- End of excerpt from Laura M Ruck

Most student basses (if not all?) have low Eb, right next to the E on the pinky
of the right hand. Pro horns can go down as far as C from what I can tell.

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