Bass clarinet
bass member of the clarinet family that is associated with Western art music and is generally pitched in B♭
The bass clarinet is a type of clarinet, and is a woodwind single-reed instrument. The earliest record of the 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 octavelower 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.[1] 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.
 2 historical short bass clarinets, right instrument made 1848 by Adolphe Sax from boxwood | |
| Hornbostel–Sachs classification | 422.211.2 (Single clarinets with cylindrical bore, with fingerholes) |
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ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "Clarinet", The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments 3 volumes, ed. Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan, 1984.
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