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Re: About that Ridenour Bass Clarinet...

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2004-06-04 14:34

Terry -

The Selmer clarinet you mention had the "Marca" mechanism, which was a second register key, opening a vent on the barrel, that made it possible to play the altissimo register with fingerings mirroring the lower registers. That is, you could play all the way down to the equivalent of chalumeau E/clarion B, sounding Ab. It was not an "automatic" mechanism -- you had to press the extra key with your left thumb. I tried the instrument at the Clarinet Congress in London about 25 years ago and picked up a fingering chart, which is exactly the same as a regular chart, with extra fingerings for the Marca mechanism. Frankly, the instrument didn't play very well.

For more, see http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=49799&t=49799.

Best regards.

Ken Shaw

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