Klarinet Archive - Posting 000689.txt from 1997/10

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: RE: Clarinets players becoming sax players & bass clars
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 05:35:11 -0400

At 08:58 AM 10/16/97 +0100, you wrote:
>I can't say I find these notes weak precisely, but they do seem difficult
>to hit when leaping up from the bottom register. When I started on the
>bass, I found controlling the passage across the break the most difficult
>bit. I've never had an instrument with more than one register key,
>though - is this easier on an instrument with 2?
>Roger Shilcock
>
I think the double register key refers to the fact that the single lever
controls two different holes with the switch-over occurring automatically,
like on most bass clarinets. And yes, on leaps is when those notes are
particularly hard to control.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

   
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