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Re: Clarion Timbre on Bass Clarinet

Author: donald
Date: 2023-01-01 15:29

Check (or get a more experience player/tech to check) the register mechanism. In both the "register key or Bb" and the "upper register key or lower register key which also is used for Bb" type mechanisms you sometimes get a situation where one pad opens VERY SLIGHTLY when it's supposed to be closed. This causes havoc with upper register partials and makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to play the upper register.
The same thing can happen with a saxophone mechanism, and any people who teach Saxophone eventually encounter this- most often caused by neck alignment issues (esp on cheap saxophones where the bottom part of the neck key gets bent out of shape easily).
If both pads open at the same time it needs to be fixed. Sometimes the pad is lifting a distance just the thickness of a piece of paper... even this is enough to mess up the register exchange.

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