Klarinet Archive - Posting 000262.txt from 2002/02

From: Mike Dowler <syo@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] I'll see your low C and raise you a C note.
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 23:56:51 -0500

On the contrary, I found my "pinky" notes (C/F, C#/F#, B/E, etc.)
were much less stuffy when trying out Stephen Fox's A-clarinet
"basset extension". I just wish I could afford one! (not that they
aren't priced reasonable - it would just eat away at the old bass
clarinet fund.)

Mike Dowler

>Extensions do things to the tone and the tuning.
>RogerS.
>(Briefly....)
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>In message <004701c1b0c9$d19b1040$8a5af7a5@-----.org writes:
>> Please forgive me if I sound daft as a brush on this issue, but here's a
>> problem that's been bugging me for awhile.
>>
>> I purchased, in October, a brand spanking new bass clarinet (in Bb). My
>> teacher and I both agreed from the beginning that I should buy an instrument
>> that had the low C extension. Now in the bass clarinet universe there are
>> quite a few uses for this in the literature. I mean it's no fun playing
>> Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet unless you have the notes on your horn to go
>> where the part is written. So in the bass clarinet world the low C is
>> essential. I know in the past players had said that it affected the sound
>> of the horn, but it seems like now we've solved the problem or at least it
>> has become a mute point because of all the literature written 'down there'.
>> At any rate I don't notice any problems with my bass and the low C. So
>> here's my problem. Why would we not have low C extensions for the 'regular'
>> (one hesitates to say normal) Bb and A clarinets? I am assuming the
>> principles are the same as on bass. Now of course I realize that there is
>> limited repertoire for these extensions, but I could imagine that it might
>> come in handy for transpositions and new works not to mention the scales and
>> arpeggios that other's have mentioned. Hey I was just looking at my part
>> for Brahms' 4th Symphony and in the third movement there are some low Ebs
>> for the C clarinet. Right there you need your extension for your C clarinet
>> to do the part 'right'. So let's see that's a low C extension for your bass
>> in Bb and A your 'regular' in Bb, C and A. How about a low C for your Eb
>> and D? Anyone got an Ab sopranino that needs a few more tiny keys to
>> operate on it? Okay now I'm being silly. Here's my point though. If the
>> low C extension works on the bass why don't we just get the low C extension
>> (that is a bassett) for our Bbs and As and use it all the time? Any
>> thoughts.
>>
>> Below C level,
>> Larry
>>
>> P.S. I promise if you respond I will make no more jokes.
>>
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>Wer die Wahl hat, hat die Qual.
>------ German proverb.
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