Klarinet Archive - Posting 000159.txt from 2002/01

From: notestaff@-----.de (David Glenn)
Subj: Re: [kl] Low B on Bass Clarinet
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:42:40 -0500

SDSCHWAEG@-----.com wrote:

> Hi, All!
> I need some help with a bass clarinet problem. The band at Augustana College, where I teach, is doing a relatively new piece by David Dzubay that calls for the bass clarinet to sustain a low B - the one below low C on a low C bass.
> There are 4 bass clarinet players in the band, only one of whom has a low C instrument. One of the 4 also plays contra, so we could have him switch horns for that one note (there's no contra part in the piece). The girl with the low C horn would really like to play it on bass, though, if at all possible. We've discovered that if she stops the bell she sounds a low B while fingering low C. This is really awkward, though, and doesn't work on my bass clarinet at all because I have a resonance hole in the bell. Is there another way to accomplish the low B?
> Thanks!
> Sue Schwaegler
>
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Sue,
on my bass clarinet I get a pretty good B natural by taking my shoe off and closing the resonace hole with my foot. (Pfewww!) I play a Fritz Wurlitzer reform Boehm. Might that work for you??
David

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