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RE: Pardon my ignorance but...

Author: Cass
Date: 2001-04-17 15:34

Yes they do, pretty much. When I subbed on bass clarinet once (which I never played before) the regular player who was out sick gave me some different fingerings on the phone for some notes. I couldn't remember them for last-minute subbing because I found out I was playing bass clarinet about two hours before a band concert, and so I used regular fingerings and hoped for the best. They worked but I had major trouble playing in tune. Not sure if that was because I used bad fingering choices or if it was mostly because I didn;t have a clue on bass clarinet! I was huffing and puffing. After it was over with I told the regular player if he got sick again I didn;t care even if he had the plague he had better show up!!! But I could see where doubling on them would make sense. You need more time than two hours to get use to the difference though!

Now I have a question so please pardon my ignorance too! At a music festival years ago I saw a man with a clarinet that was too long for an A clarinet but not long enough for an alto clarinet. It looked maybe two inches longer than an A clarinet and it was straight like the A and B flat clarinet. It looked normal except maube slightly fatter around, and it had six keys at the bottom for the right little finger instead of four. I think it had at least one more extra, for the left little finger. But would that make it so much longer? It was a really obvious difference. He was an older man carrying this clarinet around and I was a freshman in high school too nervous to go ask him what kind of a clarinet it was . I have been curious ever since! I never did get to hear him play it. He was in orchestras and I was in bands.

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