Klarinet Archive - Posting 000938.txt from 2000/02

From: Topper <leo_g@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bass clarinet...a BAD saxophone sound?
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:48:50 -0500

>On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:36:30 EST GrabnerWG@-----.com writes:
>snip
>>
>>Selmer bass mouthpieces are at least a step in the right direction.
>>With re-facing and voicing they can be made to play really well.
>>
>>I'm working on a design that allows that "big low register sound" that
>>we all love so well, but keeps a clear, non-honky clarion
>>register.....just like a clarinet that just happens to be twice too
>>long..... The design involves the same size chamber, but with a
>>dramatically reduced windway, that also CONCENTRATES to flow of air.,
>>I'll need it.
>>
>>Wish me luck....I need it.
>>
>>Walter
>
>
>I wish you luck, for my selfish benefit too.
>Thanks for the lucid explanation.
>
>annhall
>who wants to play bass CLARINET.

Please let me know when you have made a new Bass Mouthpiece. All my Bass
sounds like in the upper registers is a big Soprano clarinet. I use a
Vandoren 45 with a medium to Hard LaVoz. The only thing I get that comes
near to a soprano sax would be in the upper harmonics around the 4th G and
above and I have to open up a falsetto tone to do it. Otherwise it still
sounds like the upper register of a soprano esp with the vandoren 45 I can
get past the 6th Eb and still sound like a big bore pete fountain model or
a selmer B 50s in the high wailing or screech tones.
But if you come out with a new mpc that is better please let me know.

Cheers,

Leo

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