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Author: BassClari90
Date: 2002-05-02 22:28
Okay this has been driving me crazy. I have just recently started playing the bass clarinet, and I was playing it today and have noticed that key number 6, you know first there is the thumb key, then the 1,2,3 then on the right hand 4,5,6. Well on number six there is no pad but it closes that key over to the right of it, I am wonderinf if there is a pad missing there that I need replaced or is it just supposed to be there. Note: There is a small maybe the size of the half hole on key 1, under the key 6, so I amwondering if that is supposed to be covered or is is just there for some reason???
All you bass clarinetists out there and information welcome.
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Author: BassClari90
Date: 2002-05-02 22:31
If you are confused which key it is, I forgot to mention which note it plays, it might make it a lot easier!!!! It is the G/D key.
Sorry!!!!!
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Author: AL
Date: 2002-05-02 23:46
Everything's fine.
There is not supposed to be a pad there unless it's a cushion. At that point on the instrument the hole is too large and too far away from the "G/D key" as you call it. The key has a extension down to the pad which closes that hole.
AL
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Author: jbutler
Date: 2002-05-02 23:50
No pad.....I get a chuckle when I get a bass clarinet in for repair and a band director has put a pad in there. The same goes for the first touch piece on the flute. I've had flutes come in with a pad there and there is NO tone hole to be covered!
jbutler
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Author: Don Poulsen
Date: 2002-05-03 14:17
As a word of explanation, some keys on a bass clarinet are placed so that they make fingering convenient. If they all had to be directly over the holes, fingering the instrument would be difficult and, in some cases, impossible. That is also one of the reasons plateau keys are used instead of have the player just cover the holes with his/her fingers. (That and the difficulty of covering larger holes.) The contrabass clarinet presents an even more extreme example of this.
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