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 Re: Cheating your way to an extra low note
Author: karlbonner82 
Date:   2010-05-17 16:14


> 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.


Apparently clarinetists are more particular than hornists when it comes to tone. Up until about 1850, most hornists used valveless instruments and for them, muffled tone via the hand in the bell was a small price to pay in order to get extra notes to sound.
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