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Corbin bass clarinet resonator

Author: Ebclarinet1
Date: 2020-09-19 05:08

Normally I have a healthy suspicion of new products that claim they will improve my tone or response. So I tried with some trepidation the Corbin bass clarinet resonator.

Basically it is a cylinder of granadilla wood that fits midway on the neck joint of the bass clarinet. On my horn it does the most good right at the tuning slide area so you have to take your neck joint apart in order to insert the resonator.

As I said I was skeptical, but the difference is quite astounding. Position on the neck appeared to make a difference. The greatest change in sound was when I positioned it as described in the last paragraph. Moving it away from that greatly lessened the effect. Three things were improved by the resonator. 1) The sound was bigger, although I could still get ppp in the full range of the instrument. 2) The connection between the octaves and overall response of the horn was much better. 3) The altissimo notes were much less thin and the range was extended by a couple notes.

I'll be interested to hear from others that have tried it.

Eefer guy

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