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Author: Elke Vogelchen
Date: 2000-04-17 20:22
I am a beginning student of clarinet and I would like to know what is the lowest note that an A clarinet can make. The Bb clarinet's lowest note is E and when transcribed to concert pitch is D.
Thanks
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-04-17 20:48
The A is pitched a half-tone lower than the the Bb - lowest note is E sounding a concert Db.
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Author: Jeff
Date: 2000-04-18 03:53
But there are Bb Clarinets that have a low Eb key on them-just to make it possible to transpose from A to Bb completely.
Jeff
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-04-18 11:47
Jeff wrote:
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But there are Bb Clarinets that have a low Eb key on them-just to make it possible to transpose from A to Bb completely.
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That was/is common in Italy - players owned one clarinet and transposed like crazy.
Personally, I think buying another clarinet is preferable to the stress involved in sight-transposing with an Italian conductor listening :^)
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-04-18 19:42
Elke - Read the thread and posts below under "Bb Clarinet" to get a better idea of differences among the soprano clarinets, also all of our "good books" with Clarinet in the titles [available from Sneezy sponsors] describe the tonal and playing characteristics of modern insts. Don
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Author: Kevin Bowman
Date: 2000-04-19 03:57
And the Italian literature is not known for having lots of sustained notes to sit and think about Although, fortunately, most of the Rossini overatures are very scalar.
Still, I agree, the benefits gained from owning an actual A clarinet FAR outweigh the costs.
Kevin Bowman
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