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Re: Help finding a Low C Bass Clarinet

Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2018-10-12 02:40

Hank might be onto something. Unless there are really debilitating problems with the instrument, it sounds off for a school person to say something like that. I'm currently borrowing a Vito for some chamber work, and while I wouldn't want to make it a lifetime thing, I'm fairly sure I wouldn't be prohibited from playing it in a college orchestra if I were actually, you know, in college. It sounds like a bass clarinet, the keys work, and it can be made to play in tune. If the young woman has aspirations to play professionally, she will eventually need something that will cost a fair chunk of change, but if that isn't going to happen now, then is the low C really necessary? Doing without it would probably open up a lot of used instruments along the lines of this Vito that would at least move her down the road some. Depending on what her problems are, springing for a top-rate mouthpiece, say, by Grabner, might transform a mediocre experience into a satisfying one.

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