Author: graham
Date: 2005-02-14 08:17
I go along with DS here. You may go months on end never needing lower than E flat, or playing a piece with one or two Cs in it which are in tutti passages and nobody knows you have put it up an octave, but then you hit on the rep (particularly Shos) where that is not possible. If you turn up with an instrument that does not play all the notes that seems to say something about you, because Shos is mainstream stuff. It says that you are a second rank player (or worse). You won't have the time to explain how little these notes are used, or that there was this debate on a bulletin board. The damage will have been done.
Anyone hoping to play contemporary music occasionally is even more in need of the extended instrument.
It could be regarded as a curse that this happened to the bass clarinet, when there is so little utility in the lower notes and they are so rarely needed. It leaves so many good instruments on the shelf. But that is the way it has turned out.
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