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Bass Clarinet

kalestilezkalestilez Long Beach, CA✭✭
edited February 2012 in Woodwinds Posts: 35
Does anyone else like playing bass clarinet in a GJ setting as much as I do? For anyone who prefers clarinet to sax, and can't wrap their brain around the practicality of an octave key that actually takes you up an octave and not a major 5th, there's good news. Bass clarinet is great fun, and in the clarion register, sounds a lot like a tenor sax. I haven't seen anyone else in the GJ scene playing the tenor saxes goofy looking black & silver cousin. Please chime in!

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  • My coach at college is the top bass clarinet player in our part of the world. While he has yet to come to the GJ fold, :shock: :) He did commission seven new bass clarinet works that debuted last fall.

    I think bass clarinet in GJ would be a whole lot of fun and would work particularly well in tunes like Nuages which have lots of space.

    To my ear the big challenge would be finding some space in the instruments register playing with bass and a couple of guitars.

    I will be really interested to hear of your experiences and thoughts.
    The Magic really starts to happen when you can play it with your eyes closed
  • AndyWAndyW Glasgow Scotland UK✭✭✭ Clarinets & Saxes- Selmer, Conn, Buescher, Leblanc et.al. // Guitars: Gerome, Caponnetto, Napoli, Musicalia, Bucolo, Sanchez et. al.
    Posts: 599
    it's on my list of things to do, is try out the Eb alto and Bb bass clarinets. not sure if they'd work in Gj, as Jazzaferri suggests... First i'll have to buy / borrow the gear, though - YaY! i get to buy more stuff!

    plus- anybody thought about the sopranino Eb clarinets for gj ?? there are a few around , quite cheap too..
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