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Clarinet Tonalities

Author: Barry Vincent
Date: 2016-10-05 02:12

Now this is most likely a silly question. I was looking at a photograph of the Clarinet family of instruments and noted how , as each Clarinet got larger , the tonality was different for each size. C Soprano is smaller than the Bb Soprano and the Bb Soprano is smaller than the A Soprano ect. Now it so happens that I have full Boehms of the Bb and A which have an extra semitone at the bottom of the compass (range). Now here is the potentual silly question. Because of this extra semitone , how come the Bb isn't now an A and the A not an Ab in pitch? Each of these full Boehms are longer than non Boehm Clarinets. Obviously , I'm missing some sort of obvious detail here.

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