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Re: Bass clarinet voicing issue - pitching too high

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-10-27 23:01

One other possibility comes to ind - a mechanical issue a repair person won't find unless he leak-tests the instrument when it's assembled. My bass has an automatic double register mechanism. The lower one opens for B4-D#5 and the upper one opens beginning with E5. Only one should be open at a time. Even when every pad seals on each section, if the bridge keys that control the register mechanism and the pad that closes for 1+1 Eb4/Bb5 aren't lined up in a specific way, the register keys open when they shouldn't. I don't know if there's a single but less complicated mechanism involved with a single register opening. But you might check to be sure the register pad(s) are firmly closed with the instrument assembled (just another issue I had to find for myself).

Karl

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