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Re: Bass throat tone problem

Author: clarnibass
Date: 2016-08-08 08:54

A leak at the top area (e.g. throat or register keys) would affect the upper clarion first. It would start at upper clarion and gradually go lower the larger the leak is.

A leak from the register key (or throat Bb key) could cause something similar and might cause the throat Bb to sound weird, and possibly but not so likely the throat A. Unless it leaks all the time, it can't affect G# (unless you have an extremely unlikely combination of very specific problems that are too long to explain) but definitely not G.

I'm not sure what your experience is but it's not uncommon for some players, especially beginners but not only, to struggle with top clarion C. Usually caused by the lack of support from the top of the hand against the thumb and mouth.

Your best bet is to first have the instrument checked by a good repairer and possibly a good player too. Though an excellent player whoc is used to a very good instrument might take some time to really get used to the way this kind of model plays.

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