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Re: low Eb key

Author: jdbassplayer
Date: 2016-08-17 03:52

Several reasons:

•concert Db is not an extremely common scale/note, and we already have A clarinets to cover that extra note.

•Added complexity

•Added weight

•Clarinetists don't like change. We've been playing the same Boehm system clarinets for more than a century and a half. Why change now?

To be fair I'm not saying clarinets shouldn't have any extra low notes, in fact i built a clarinet that goes all the way to low C just for the heck of it:

http://imgur.com/a/DyazP

-Jdbassplayer

Post Edited (2016-08-17 03:53)

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Re: low Eb key

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