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 Re: Why do band directors put their bad clarinetists on bass clarinet?
Author: SteveG_CT 
Date:   2012-02-13 16:59

David Spiegelthal wrote:

> This discussion came up not too long ago on the SaxOnTheWeb
> forum, where I was pretty much shouted down for suggesting that
> what Kontra is asking, actually takes place. Certainly back in
> my day (when dinosaurs ruled the earth) it was very common for
> the worst clarinetists to get put on one of the so-called
> 'harmony' clarinets by their band directors. I was one of the
> very rare (then, at least) players who switched to bass
> clarinet by choice rather than decree.

It was true when I was in school too. Usually the kids who had trouble playing the high notes got put on bass since you rarely had to get out of the chalumeau or low clarion when playing bass in the typical middle/high school concert band repertoire. I was "exiled" to the bass clarinet myself at one point for this reason. Turns out I played a lot better on bass and still love playing it today several years later.

Later on I figured out that my upper register difficulties were in large part due to being told to use a vandoren 4.5 reed "because only beginners use softer reeds". I wish I could have afforded private lessons back then and had a real teacher set me straight.
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