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Bass clarinet
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Bundy bass clarinet
Hornbostel–Sachs classification 422.211.2
(Single clarinets with cylindrical bore, with fingerholes)
Playing range
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The bass clarinet is a type of clarinet, and is a woodwind single-reed instrument. The earliest record of a bass clarinet is called a 'bass tube' invented in Paris in 1772 by G. Lott. It usually has a B-flat pitch. It plays an octave lower than the normal clarinet. This means that when a Bass Clarinet makes a note, the note that actually sounds is an octave and a whole tone lower. There are some bass clarinets that have an A or C pitch as well as E flat, but there are not very many of these.



Images for kids

  • Tara Bouman (2)

    Tara Bouman playing bass clarinet

  • Bassaklarinett

    Four modern short bass clarinets, from left to right Leblanc L400, Signet Selmer 1430P, E. M. Winston, Leblanc 330S

  • 2 kurze Basskl. hist

    Two short bass clarinets, on the right side made from boxwood

  • Bass clarinet glicibarifono Catterini Bate

    Glicibarifono by Catterini, 1838

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Nicola Papalini, bass clarinet in C

    The serpentine bass clarinet by Papalini, 1820

See also

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