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Re: Highest Note On Bass Clarinet

Author: HANGARDUDE
Date: 2023-09-04 20:03

dorjepismo wrote:

> I don't know wht the actual note is in Goliov, but David
> Bruce's Gumboots has an F# an octave above what we usually call
> altissimo F#. It's not really that hard to get to. There's a
> fingering chart, I think connected with woodwind.org somewhere,
> with all the notes in that piece, and some higher ones. I
> pretty much have to write the fingerings in the part because
> unless you play them all the time, they're hard to remember.
>
> Bill B.

Jon Russell's Bass Clarinet Concerto calls for a Super Ab aka the one an octave above altissimo Ab, the highest note I am aware of any composition I've come across.

Josh

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