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Author: Hank Lehrer
Date: 2017-11-11 17:43
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Hi All,
There has been a lot of discussion on this BB over the past few years about the shape and angle of bass clarinet necks. Here are the two necks I now have for my Model 65 Selmer bass. The one with more of an up angle is the standard neck that comes with a new instrument. The flatter angle neck is the extra neck I purchased from Selmer.
You can see that each neck is a different design and the entire shape of each is quite different. I have not experimented with swapping the parts (I'm not really interested).
While conventional thinking would seem to lead one to believe that the flatter angle neck would work more comfortably with someone like myself who is a doubler on sax, this has not been the case. The more up angled neck is what I prefer. The different and more clarinet-like angle seems to give me more reed responsiveness; I have slowly migrated to that neck and use it now for all my playing.
HRL
Post Edited (2017-11-11 17:44)
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