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Re: Super low notes

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2014-10-05 16:23

I saw and heard (from 5 feet away) John Denman bend low E3 down to Eb3 at a jazz concert. I think he laid his tongue on the reed to add mass. He may have cupped his tongue to create a vacuum and pull the reed away from the rails, as in the slap tongue.

You can also stick all or part of a toilet paper or paper towel center tube in the bell. I recently saw a YouTube video in which the player used half a dozen tubes of different lengths.

Heckel makes an extended foot joint, to low A, for the last note of the Nielsen Quintet, and all bassoonists make paper towel extenders for that note.

Ken Shaw

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