Raymond Horton wrote:
John Howell wrote:
> (1) I was surprised to find that the bass clarinet parts (the
primary instrument out of 4 in the Reed 4 book) is clearly written for
a low C bass clarinet, and the bottom >three notes are used a LOT!
Our bass clarinet player discovered last night that most of those low
notes are doubled by cello, so he'll just take them up an octave, but
my >question is whether low C bass clarinets have become as common as
low A bari saxes outside NYC? It's a cinch that nobody around here
has one.
Pro symphony players will often have one. Tremendous sound -
Khachaturian Piano Concerto is one of the best examples that require
it, along with many other Russian scores.
Every reed doubler I know who is called to do lower reeds owns a bass
clarinet with a low C.
> Also, there are no ossiahs to make the English horn passages
playable on oboe, as there are in a lot of other Broadway scores. Has
this become common?
Because an oboe is is no replacement for an English Horn. You can
usually find a good oboist that doubles. Certainly NYC wasn't worried
about it. (Don't you just HATE smart-aleck answers like this one!)
Perhaps you could rent your oboist an English Horn?
Again, any double reed players out there who do the stuff a lot have
their own English horn and Oboe, or can get them on short notice. I
mean, for double reeds, you have to have both. It's like a flute player
NOT having a piccolo.
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