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Re: Double Lip Embouchure on Bass

Author: Dibbs
Date: 2018-05-10 15:26

I don't think it can be the size of the reed that makes basses squeaky and squonky. Tenor saxes have similar sized reeds and it doesn't happen on them.

I would love to know for sure what does cause it. Stephen Fox that suggests it is something to do with a mismatch between the instrument and vocal tract acoustic impedances but he gives no references to back up that claim nor have I ever seen mention of it elsewhere. Perhaps it comes from his own informal research.

http://www.sfoxclarinets.com/Bass_Clar.html

On thing of note is the bore size. You would expect the bore of a bass clarinet to have double the cross sectional area of a soprano clarinet. That's how organ builders design ranks of pipes. I believe that a French bass clarinet has a bore of about 23mm. Working backwards that would be roughly equivalent to a soprano clarinet bore of about 16mm which would be huge. Could that have something to do with it?

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