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Kurt Bjorling's C - clarinet to low D

Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2001-03-21 03:41

Low D, not low C, correct? Which really means, the written low E of a standard Bb clarinet. So why all the contortions to do this with a c - clarinet? Why not just a good old - fashioned Bb clarinet? A guy like him can probably transpose with ease, and with the modals of klezmer, there are going to be plenty of sharp / flat accidentals thus difficult fingerings in any key somewhere. Tone? Won't the additional length of the low D extension darken the sound, making it sound like a Bb, anyway? I heard Brave Old World once; they were miked and amped, obfuscating the finer points of tonality. He had pickup mikes on both his "C" and his basset horn.

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