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Author: donald
Date: 2005-07-19 02:00
this weekends gig is playing 2nd/bass clarinet for the Edmund Meisel score for Eisenstein's masterpiece "The Battleship Potemkin" (usually screened with music by Shostakovich)
the bass clarinet part goes down to... ta dahhhhh...... written low B flat.
so, i guess it's "out with the cardboard tube"
what a pain!
but it makes me wonder..... back in 1920s Berlin was there a bass clarinettist with a low B flat key????????
donald
btw- the cardboard tube won't work, as it's a 16th/semiquaver run, and the preceeding note is low C.....
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Author: Brent
Date: 2005-07-19 14:32
Looks like you'll need your contra-alto for this one...
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2005-07-19 14:46
If it's a fast run, how will anyone know if you DON't play the low-Bb? Can't you substitute a low-D or something? It's not your fault some copyist was ignorant of basic orchestration.......... Personally I wouldn't lug a contra-alto to a gig just to cover one note, unless I were being paid comparably LARGE sums of money (yeah, right!).
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