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Re: Low C vs Low Eb Bass Clarinets

Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2019-10-15 18:07

Back in the late 60s, I got to know the composer Karel Husa who was teaching at Ithica University. He had spent a summer as composer in residence at the Eastern Music Festiveal where I was teaching and we got to know each other pretty well. He offered to write a bass clarinet concerto for me but his publisher told him it would never sell. He considered writing it for bass clarinet or tenor sax but it never came to be. One day he called me to confirm that the bass went down to low C because he was writing a piece for wind ensemble and his director of ensembles told him the bass only went down to Eb. He asked me if he can use my name and position to confirm the range. Then he asked me some questions about trill possibilities. At the time I was not able to trill a low D to C on my Selmer model. It made me think so a few years later I had a low D added to my bass on the left side to make it possible. I didn't have to use it for another 30 plus years. I don't know what wind ensemble piece he wrote at the time. My suggestion, get a low C instrument.

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