Klarinet Archive - Posting 000840.txt from 1999/10

From: "Justin Wood" <olio555@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Bb Soprano to Bass Clarinet
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 19:58:32 -0400

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My band director sent in the applications for the District Band in =
my District in Pennsylvania. He decided he wanted to send me on Bass =
Clarinet and I agreed to go on Bass Clarinet if I was chosen as such. =
Well, I was chosen on Bass and unfortunatly I am not very familar with =
the instrument.=20
I tend to pick up new instruments quite quickly, but I wondered =
what kind of input people on the list might have to help this Soprano =
player adapt to his clarinet's larger brother.
I just wondered what I difficulties I might expect on this =
instrument and mostly different setups some of the Soprano/Bass doublers =
use. Right now I am using a Larry Combs LC1 mouthpiece with Vandoren =
V-12's (2 1/2 and 3) and a BG Revelation Ligature on my Soprano. I have =
no clue which mouthpieces people recommend for Bass Clarinet, nor the =
reeds they might use.
I am sorry to ask such a broad question. As for the horn, I don't =
know the exact model, but it is a Leblanc Bass with the main body coming =
apart into two pieces. (In case I am unclear in describing this, it =
comes apart into the equivalents of the upper and lower joints of the Bb =
Soprano) I just wondered what all of you out there have had good luck =
with and bad luck with.
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As a side not:
For all of you that were talking about the intonation problems =
and weird fingerings in the high registers on the Eb Soprano clarinet, =
try the Ab Piccolo clarinet. That one has a few. I have one with the =
Albert System. Great fun to play and extremely weird too. In fact, I =
think I am going to go get it out and play it for a while.
=20
Thanks in advance.
=20
Sincerely,
J. Wood

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