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lower clarion of a basset clarinet

Author: Molloy
Date: 2008-04-13 03:22

I play full-boehm clarinet (old Selmer), and I sometimes use the lowest note in the clarion as an alternative middle-line Bb. It's a little resistant and stuffy with the usual register key, although it has excellent pitch. With side Bb trill opened instead of the register key, it loses the resistence and stuffiness and is the best-sounding of the Bb's (this isn't very practical, because it requires a little contortion to finger it that way).

It got me wondering about the lower notes on a basset clarinet. Is there a usable A, G# and G at the bottom of the second register? Do they require inventive venting?

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