I be damned ... I have been laboring under the assumption that d
concert was the lowest note a b.c. could play without extension. I
checked the fingering chart, and you are correct. It's amazing how
much I learn from this site.
Thanks,
Dean
On Oct 23, 2005, at 8:01 AM, Robert Patterson wrote:
An interesting aside. I think at least some professionals, given
the option, prefer to use bass clarinets without the c extension
because they prefer the response. I encountered just such a player
in a pro orchestra one time that was playing one of my pieces. (It
was a European orchestra, but I don't know if that is significant.)
He pointed out a note I had written with 4 leger lines below the
treble clef and commented that it was too low. Then he looked
again. (There was a sharp in front of it.) DOH! (In fact, nowhere
in that piece calls for the extension.)
But it was interesting to realize that, at least for this player,
his wired mindset was that the lowest note on his horn was e-flat
rather than d-sharp. Perhaps because the higher clarinets only go
down to e.
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