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Re: Pedler wood bass

Author: SteveG_CT
Date: 2010-10-18 15:08

I have a Pedler custombuilt bass and have been fairly happy with it. The tone is nice and the intonation is decent on my instrument. They play well when kept in good adjustment. That being said, they go out of adjustment if you so much as look at them funny, especially the double register mechanism.

The keywork is for the most part fairly comfortable providing that you don't have small hands. The low Eb is tough as there is no left-hand key for it and it's a bit of a stretch unless you have very long fingers. Other than that there aren't many ergonomic issues as far as fingerings go. As with many older basses the mouthpiece angle is nearly horizontal so it is a pain to play while standing and you will need to learn to look around the neck to read music. I suspect that you could alleviate this by having the neck re-angled by someone like Dave Spiegelthal however.

Overall I'd say Pedler's are decent lower-intermediate level bass clarinets. They should be fine for community band duty but look elsewhere if you plan on playing at a higher level.

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