Author: September
Date: 2016-04-23 00:46
Long story short: I live in the middle of no-where, play in a small amateur ensemble, and recently found a bass clarinet in our storage. I've wanted to try my hand at the bass clarinet ever since I saw one played live at the age of twelve, so naturally - I took it home.
So far, the only sound it produces is a pitched sqeak. Moreover, the sound when I blow into the instrument (middle G, well, fingering) is pretty much the same as when I blow into just the mouthpiece and the neck - though the pitch DOES respond when I try different fingerings.
My question, then, is if I'm the one doing something wrong, or if this is a symptom of something wrong with the instrument? It's probably been untouched for close to a decade, but it seems to be in a good shape, with no leaks or cracks that I can see. The only thing that comes to mind is the ligature, which looks like it belongs to an alto sax - it's too small for the mouthpiece, and just barely keeps together when I loosen it to take off the reed. As for the source of any possible errors in playing technique, I normally play the soprano clarinet and bariton saxophone.
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