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Author: clarimad
Date: 2010-12-13 07:21
Does anyone know much about Buissons that go to low F? Any idea when they were making these?
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2010-12-13 08:48
I thought all clarinets were meant to go to low E for a good reason - only going to low F will mean you lose both low E and upper register B leaving a gap in the range. Obviously some clarinets are built to low Eb, low D and low C, but they still have the all-important low E.
Buissons were made by a varitey of companies - Malerne (who made them in a variety of keywork specifications) as well as some Italian and Czech companies, though all would have been built to low E as standard.
Could it by chance have the low E/B key missing?
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2010-12-13 17:31
> I thought all clarinets were meant to go to low E for a good reason - only
> going to low F will mean you lose both low E and upper register B leaving a
> gap in the range.
The B natural can be fingered as throat Bb plus the 2nd (from top) trill keys.
But I agree, it's just an emergency option as those throat notes are rather weak anyway.
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Ben
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2010-12-13 18:24
... and very tricky to get to the upper register C from the throat note fingering (unless you use the throat note fingering for C as well).
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2010-12-13 18:48
Yes, that'd be the logical consequence, Chris. Solve one problem and immediately a new one pops up...
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Ben
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