Klarinet Archive - Posting 000159.txt from 2006/12

From: Richard <sanko@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Alto vs. bassethorn
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:50:38 -0500

I have a slight correction to offer in connection with the alto clarinet and basset horn discussion. Dan Leeson wrote:

But until the alto clarinet can play the full range of notes
available to a basset hornist, and in tune, it cannot compete,
and the reason is as plain as the nose on your face. One is
obliged to have available the alto clarinet equivalent of a low
C, D-flat, and D as heard on a basset horn in F.

In fact, the low Eb on an alto clarinet is the same pitch as the low Db on a basset horn, so the alto needs only ONE additional low note in order to have the same low range as a basset horn. I have thought about constructing an extension for the alto that would fit between the bell and the rest of the clarinet, with a tone hole and pad. Never got around to actually making one. Anyone care to give it a try? ---Richard

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