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Something that has been bothering me for the past week

Author: mtom  Date:   2017-09-28 03:53 Hi, I am practicing transposing Bassoon parts to Bsclar for my school's pit orchestra, and its a total pain imo. Something that helped me a little bit so far is that I can read the bassoon notes like I'm playing it on the bari sax, but play it on bass clar. So, effectively, a bassoon F# right below the staff would be a bari D#, and that would be a G#. Just a little trick that's been helping me. I could always just read it up a 4th and change the key, but that's boring Now onto my stupid idea. What if you just made a really long neck for the bass clarinet, so the pitch would match an EEb contralto? I am 99% sure that it would not work, because all of the proportions and tonehole sizes would be all messed up, but a part of me wants to go to Home Depot and pick up some PVC and give it a whirl. Any ideas on my imagination?

Topics	Author	Date
Something that has been bothering me for the past week  new	mtom	2017-09-28 03:53
Re: Something that has been bothering me for the past week  new	Ed Lowry	2017-09-28 04:25
Re: Something that has been bothering me for the past week  new	Chris P	2017-09-28 14:15
Re: Something that has been bothering me for the past week  new	Mojo	2017-09-28 16:48

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