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RE: Double register key for bass clarinet

Author: David Spiegelthal
Date: 2002-06-17 14:18

Reportedly Steve Freeman of (or perhaps formerly of?) the NY Philharmonic plays on an old manual-double-register key bass clarinet.
I added my own manual second register key to a Malerne bass clarinet which I had overhauled and sold a few months ago. It made a considerable improvement in the response and intonation of the lower clarion register, but I hadn't played on the horn enough to get used to the fingering change. It was mainly a problem going back and forth from the throat Bb to the clarion register (since the throat Bb didn't work at all if the manual 2nd register key was depressed). Granted the automatic double systems are fairly complex and can be cantakerous, but they have a good reason for existence, of this I'm convinced!

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