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Re: Building a bass clarinet on a shoe string

Author: clarnibass
Date: 2018-07-30 23:09

The Selmer E is very good, a lot of excellent players use non-C Selmer mouthpieces (like E, G, H). As suggested maybe try the softest reed you can and then move up if you need to.

There's a good chance a Selmer Bundy neck would fit your bass.

A bell isn't critical for your purpose, other than making it more comfortable to hold. You just won't have a few notes.

Re the ligature, a shoelace is good. If you are tired of wrapping it every time, and you have some epoxy, you can put plastic wrap around the mouthpiece with reed, wrap the shoelace and cover it completely with epoxy. You then have a ligature you can slide on and off. Some people prefer to leave the area of the shoelace that is over the reed without glue. You can smear a thin layer of grease on the plastic to make sure the epoxy doesn't glue to it.

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