Klarinet Archive - Posting 000460.txt from 1999/10

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Altissimo on bass clarinet
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 10:08:59 -0400

In a message dated 10/15/99 10:00:54 PM Central Daylight Time,
dodgshun@-----.nz writes:

<< Is there any reason why this is so much more necessary on bass clarinet
than
on Bb? I can't get a single altissimo note on bass without having that
little side piece to the first finger key closed so that the hole is
half-closed, but I've never had to half-hole on Bb.
>>
I'm not an acoustician, so I don't know why, but I have always found the half
hole technique to be essential in producing controlled altissimo notes on the
bass clarinet.

I've also found that you have to search for novel fingerings on the bass to
produce some of the notes you need to play. I think I know about 17 different
ways to produce the high "G", none of which I'm ever truly satisfied with
(Some irony here, but a little truth).

OOPS, now that I think about it, I realize that some of my G and above
fingerings I close the half hole. I haven't intellectualized this in a long
time (hmmmmmmmm). I't's probably because I'm now in a fourth register??????

Insight here, bass clarinetters???

Walter Grabner

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