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Why my A wouldn't play. (Duh!)

Author: Don Poulsen
Date: 2004-06-02 15:49

(A humbling post about a simple solution to a troubling problem)

A while back, I posted about occasionally not being able to get second-space A to sound on my bass clarinet when playing pianissimo or piano. On an occasion since then that it happened, it suddenly dawned on me as to what the problem might be and, lo and behold, I was correct! Moisture around the tone hole for the A key was forming a bubble around the pad and tone hole. At low volumes, the pressure differential was insufficient to burst the bubble, at least immediately. The obvious solution when this occurs is to dab out the moisture with a tissue (or cigarette paper). Or, lacking the tissue, to blow the some of the moisture from the tone hole.

Duh!!!

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