Klarinet Archive - Posting 000057.txt from 1999/07

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Low Sax Notes
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 20:18:26 -0400

Re. the big sound of a baritone sax, I wrote,
> I get that kind of charge out of my bass sax, only a sixth lower!>

Oops.

Ed Lacy wrote,
>Actually, the bass sax in relationship to the baritone would be a perfect
fourth lower, I think.

>The old orchestration professor....>

You're right. As you say, the interval, in orchestral pitch, is a perfect
fourth, as long as neither the Eb baritone nor the Bb bass has the low A or
both of them have it. (Old woofer saxes, like my 1926 bass, only have
keywork to written low Bb. There aren't many new basses. I don't know if
the few companies that will make a bass on special order take the keywork
down to low A nowadays. A lot of modern baritones have keywork to low A. If
the bass has no low A and the bari has low A, the difference becomes a minor
fourth.) I didn't even catch my mistake when I read my own message in the
digest.

Thanks, Ed--
Lelia

Lelia

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