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Re: problem notes on bass clarinet?

Author: Chris P
Date: 2019-11-10 15:55

LH3 should lower but shouldn't fully close LH2 and the E/B vent key (under the LH2 fingerplate) as that can prevent the LH3 pad from closing (same thing applies to tenor saxes).

LH2 should fully close the E/B vent immediately underneath the LH2 fingerplate just as the LH2 ring key on soprano clarinets closes the E/B vent key it controls and LH3 is completely independent being a plain tonehole on the majority of clarinets.

It's regulated by bending the LH2 fingerplate and checking both pads close together - some people do stupid things like sticking bits of cork onto the felt and that only makes the action sluggish, defeats the object of using felt and above all it looks amateurish.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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