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Re: Bass clarinet to low C, C4 with register key

Author: ebonite
Date: 2015-11-17 02:03

If you play low C on an exteded rage bass clarinet, and uncover the L1 half-hole, but without pressing the register key, you should be able to get the twelfth above (same pitch as open G). It is in tune on my bass clarinet, though it sounds very muffled, probably because the hole is so small. The normal register key would be in completely the wrong position.

On my instrument, the normal register key can be used to overblow the low Eb to produce an approximation of Bb, but it's so sharp that it could only be used for a grace note, and only in some contexts. Below that, the register key doesn't produce any usable note (the overblown notes are impossibly out of tune, and have a terrible response/sound).

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