Author: donald
Date: 2023-04-12 08:16
Smaller=easier for kids
Simpler= easier to maintain (esp when owned/loaded by an institution)
Unfortunately they generally play fine in the lower register BUT results in the clarion are highly variable (I HAVE heard players with a single register vent sound perfectly fine in the upper register, but personally never had good results!).
This works ok for the old fashioned attitude where the Bass Clarinet is primarily a "lower register grunt machine", which may indeed be the case in a LOT of parts... but is no longer typical.
Most of the parts my students present to me in lessons require them to be fluent in at least the bottom two registers.
Not impossible on a single register vent instrument, but definitely more challenging without the double vents.
Post Edited (2023-04-12 12:44)
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