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Re: Buy a Low-C or Eb Bass clarinet?

Author: Chris P
Date: 2018-07-29 16:43

Low C - you'll be covered for any eventuality and more besides.

Don't listen to the ones that say stuff like "What do you need a low C bass for when there are only two pieces that use it?" (similarly with flutes with a low B footjoint) - there are more uses for these extra notes than just music that includes them.

Be creative and inventive and use these low notes in situations that will benefit from them, such as strengthening the bass line if the other bass instrument players are a bit weak, filling out/adding extra substance to the overall texture and especially the thing that bass clarinets can do much better than most other bass instruments is the ability to play such low notes starting and sustaining them at pp levels. Bassoons and bari saxes can't do that with the same ease.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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