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RE: Contra Clarinet Fingering, Compass, and Scorin

Author: Patrick
Date: 2002-08-01 15:30

Ted,

I didn't test my fingerings on the bass clarinet (or cross check against other fingering charts). Some of them will have bad tuning or will be harder to play than the fingerings devised by Terje Lersted for the bass clarinet.

Ken Shaw included links to Lersted's fingering chart on his post (I think it was around #11 in the thread "Low C Bass Clarinet versus Contra Clarinet"). If I recall correctly, Mr. Lerstad devised fingerings for about 2 octaves of bass clarinet altissimo...yup right up through written C5, unison with the highest note that is accepted as part of the Bb clarinet range!

This is one of the great things about the low woodwinds. They have wider ranges! This seems to be in part because sounding the higher harmonics on the soprano woodwinds requires more accurate register venting than is possible with the usual one register vent or the "artificial" vents created by altissimo fingerings on those instruments.

Bass saxophone players sometimes speak of 5 octaves of range, whereas the "standard" range extends barely past 2 1/2 octaves.

Patrick

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