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Re: problem notes on bass clarinet?

Author: donald
Date: 2019-11-11 14:54

The problem originally mentioned sounded to me as though the register exchange mechanism was not properly closing the key on the neck- if that key is even just fractionally open when the lower/other vent is in use it makes the notes very stuffy.
I recently borrowed a very fine Selmer bass that had this problem, intermittently, and the erronious opening of the neck key was so slight as to be only detectable by getting someone to push on the key while those notes were being played.
That said- I don't know why this would occur for D# and D, but not the C# C and B immediately below them.
So it may not be that at all.
dn

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