Author: SHMbass
Date: 2010-12-10 15:38
I have been asking around and scouring the internet for articles relating to the opinions on the sound quality of different bass clarinets. By this I mean whether the instrument is stuffy, open voiced, dark, tinny etc. Surprisingly, there are not very many definitive articles stating how people individually feel about certain bass clarinets. There are a few articles that mention personal experiences with certain horns, but not a vast amount of them that truly define a persons experience with a bass. I am particularly curious as to the opinions on older wooden Leblanc bass clarinets; I have heard they are stuffy and very difficult to perform on, requiring a specific setup to sound half decent. Does anyone have some input on these instruments; whether they perform on them now or have played a couple notes on one in the past. Maybe someone has a good comparison to the old wooden Selmers and Buffets.
Someday we should form a sort of video collection of performances on all of the different companies' basses, so we have audio examples to base our selection of instruments from. Someday.
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