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Author: Angel_of_Music
Date: 2003-10-08 01:23
I would like to know for a project. If anybody knows any of the ranges, I would much appreciate it. 
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-10-08 01:30
Are you serious ... being a little lazy are we?? Hint: Groves Dictionary of Music won't tell you this.
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Author: ron b
Date: 2003-10-08 04:10
Aw, Diz, it isn't as though Angel's asking you to do the project. It's the kind of question your listeners might ask you after a magnificient performance. Most grade school band players would gladly answer that clarinets, like saxes, all have about the same range. Saxes range about two and a half octaves and clarinets, around three and a half octaves and the bigger they are, the lower they sound.
I, for one, would much appreciate knowing how your project turns out, Angel.
- r![[cool]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/cool.gif) n b -
Post Edited (2003-10-08 04:11)
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Author: cujo
Date: 2003-10-08 14:08
i have seem fingering charts for a soprano clarinet go up to 7 octaves. i tried them out and seem to work. but its hard to get your embrocher to work right.
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Author: hans
Date: 2003-10-08 14:10
IMO, the potential range is the distance from the lowest to the highest note on my fingering chart, inclusive.
For the Bb soprano Clarinet, that includes the distance from the E below the staff (some clarinets are capable of Eb) to the 8va C# above the staff; i.e., nearly four octaves.
The eleven members of the clarinet "family", according to Leblanc, are: Ab soprano, Eb soprano, C soprano, Bb soprano, A soprano, F Basset horn,
Eb alto, F Basset horn with extended range to C, Bb bass, Eb contra-alto, Bb contrabass.
Hans
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Author: ron b
Date: 2003-10-08 19:24
Cujo - (...ssst... May I point out that seven octaves is about the range of a standard piano? You must be using the Man of Steel embouchure development technique. I tried it for awhile; didn't get very far - not even close to six octaves
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-10-08 22:36
7 octaves ... sorry, impossible. As ron b states ... it is the range of the piano but shift the bottom note (of the piano) up to the lowest sounding note on the clarinet (concert D) and then work up 7 octaves ... prove it, sorry.
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: Don Poulsen
Date: 2003-10-08 22:48
If Hans is correct, Leblanc is ignoring the Bb bass with extended range to low C. And are there not also extended-range contraaltos and contrabasses? I assume we're limiting the discussion to instruments currently manufactured for use in western music (to avoid one-of-a-kind and obsolete instruments as well as those only used in small regions of the world -- otherwise, this list would never end).
And, on the subject of ranges, at the beginning of one rehearsal, our conductor had us warm up by playing up and down the B-flat concert scale twice, unless our instruments were capable of playing two octaves, in which case we were to play the scale for two octaves up and then back down. I just wish that I had had the guts to ask him "What if you can play four octave of the concert B-flat scale?" (I have an extended range bass.)
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Author: cujo
Date: 2003-10-08 22:57
Opps mustve posted twice
Post Edited (2003-10-08 22:59)
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Author: cujo
Date: 2003-10-08 22:58
OK maybe im a bit wrong but I was thinkin at this site that G with a little 7 meant the 7th G. But I guess I cant count. Its pretty close to 5 or 6 octaves maybe? I was never good at math. http://www.wfg.woodwind.org/clarinet/index.html
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Author: moose6589
Date: 2003-10-09 09:41
Well G7 would be the seventh octave if you started from C1.. But the standard Bb clarinet's lowest note is E3, so if you start counting from E3, it would be around 4 octaves, a little less or a little more depending on who you ask I guess.
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