Hi all, I bought a bass clarinet from a friend a little while ago that he got secondhand without a case, so I'm currently without one. I want to take my clarinet to my college campus to practice, but I'm not sure how to safely carry it there. What should I do?
Hi Clarinetists, I am just starting down the road of the bass clarinet, coming from decades of tenor saxophone (and years of soprano sax), but no clarient. I have a question about embouchure. On sax, I am comfortable with multiple embouchures: lower lip over teeth, lower lip not over teeth, and to a lesser degree, lower lip out. Home bass (ba doom cha) for me is normally a fair bit of mouthpiece in the mouth with a basically straight up and down lower lip that does not curve in over the teeth. (I'm used to a D'Addario 7 or 8 tip opening, with 2.5 to 3 reeds FWIW )
So.. question.. is lower lip ALWAYS over the teeth on the BC, or is the no-curving-over-the-teeth approach also a thing? Do any saxophonist doublers coming from the same technique baseline as me have suggestions on embouchure shape, mp choice, and the process of building a BC emboucher coming from tenor?
thanks!
This sounds crazy, or I may just be insanely stupid. Been playing my bass clarinet after it came from the shop. But I can’t play past C or anything above B😞😞 I tried playing without my bell and I can play everything perfectly fine . Im placing my bell right too so I don’t know why it isn’t playing . If anyone has any tips please help , or if I’m just stupid
hi yes i’m dumb and only play soprano so i have no idea what im doing. i can only get open G to C out and everything else sounds like im pressing the register key. 😭 it’s a new reed and recently repaired bass.
So I have a professional low c bass and my low E-C pads don’t fully close when pressed down bc someone accidentally stepped on it. (It was on the floor, in the visible place)
Additionally, this was part my fault, but I screwed some parts of the instrument as some keys and were too loose like the Ab key in both upper and lower joint.
So now, if I play in altissimo register and want to play notes lower than that, like open G or low G, it jumps up an octave.
Overall, I can’t play long B with one pinky, play my low notes, or go in the altissimo range w/o having my other notes jumping up.
How much do you think this repair would cost? I live in TX and plan to go to music and arts
It's probably a dumb question, but why be afraid of asking it ? I've been playing a lot lately and last time I cleaned my mouthpiece, I had to unglue and throw away the mouthpiece cushion. I want to clean the mouthpiece again, but it bothers me to throw away this barely new cushion that is barely used. How do you do it? You put a new cushion every time you clean your mouthpiece? You clean it as rarely as possible? You never clean it ?