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 Re: Cheating your way to an extra low note
Author: SteveG_CT 
Date:   2010-05-17 16:00

karlbonner82 wrote:

> What would you do with the string at the very top? Wouldn't it
> interfere with the reed? Or do you have to drape it out over
> the top of the barrel and then put on the mouthpiece in order
> to pinch it into place?
>
> Sorry but about the only practical way I can think of to stuff
> a string into a clarinet bore is to use the top joint as a
> fastener. If there's some trick to pulling this off, I'd love
> to know

At one time I believe you could actually buy an insert that would frop into the top of the barrel and would suspend a calibrated length string in the center of the bore rather than down the side or at least there are references to such a device in one of the books I have. You could easily make one by forming a piece of wire into a ring and having one end project into the center that the end of the string could be glued to. Might be an interesting experiment if you are bored but I wouldn't expect too much from it.

Regardless, there is a reason that nobody uses this technique today as it wrecks the tone quality and causes tuning problems as Mark noted above. If you want to play both Bb and A clarinet parts on one clarinet then you would be much better off finding a full-boehm Bb with the Eb extension. Such an instrument would give you the full range of an A clarinet although you would need to transpose whenever you wanted to play a piece written in A.
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