This guy: I wIsh BasS ClaRInet wEre chEaPer Me: which organ could I sell to buy a bass clarinet? Perhaps the kidney

Yea. It would be great to get a GOOD bass clarinet for an affordable price. 😊

Nightlife 9 I play the bass clarinet 😭

I wish contra alto clarinet was cheaper

I have found a bass clarinet person like me

It was created with a purpose: to cover the highest registers of the clarinet family. It's primarily been used in Italian marching bands, two Italian companies still manufacture them today - Orsi and Ripamonti. Other makers such as Schwenk und Seggelke and Steven Fox may custom make one but they're so rare the price would be exceedingly expensive. Leblanc also made them in the past but I only know of one in existence, check out Tony BC Huang on youtube 👍

the purpose is to be a squeaky boi

I used to play bass clarinet in school (over 5 decades ago), and a couple weeks ago I bought an Eb contra-alto, which I like even more.

The mouthpiece of the Bb and A instruments are interchangeable, and often a musician will just have one mouthpiece ...with a prepared and warm reed... to shift between them in performance. The C-clarinet likely uses the same mouthpiece. Multiple instruments, one mouthpiece.

Yes, at least in theory.

What about it? It's so rare and unknown as to be counted as an anomaly in the family.

The basset horn is also extremely rare. I actually play the piccolo clarinet in the school band. I wish more composers would write for it so I don't have to transpose piccolo sheet music. I find it has a pretty nice timbre. Kinda like the e-flat clarinet to the e-flat clarinet. Love your vids! I learned a lot about clarinet history.

@@BretNewtonComposer My sister & My Bff have a Basset & Ab clarinet

Theoretically, yes. Mozart called for a pair of Clarinets in B (H) in Idomeneo. There are no surviving examples of period B Clarinets though. However, I know one of the English period orchestras has a pair commissioned and the tone color is said to be more akin to the C than the A the part is normally played on.

@@BretNewtonComposer oh ok it probably wouldn't be to transpose for it anyway just like transposing for a C# instrument

Similar to a Soprano clarinet: Low E up to altissimo E is 3 octaves, sometimes you'd have to play up to an F or even G, but only if the composer wants to punish the audience.

You could make it less bright, but brightness is still an inherent quality of the instrument and one that composers specifically call for.

As Bret have expose in another video you can't name instruments based on how they "relate" to another instruments from complete different families, you should name them because what function they serve, the bass clarinet is a bass instrument, it function best in the bass register because it have a robust and rich tone in that register, so it functions best in bassline parts and as a bass solo voice: composers have always score for the instrument in this way. (Stop trying to impose Sax nomenclature to Clarinets, Saxophones are a later development and they have nothing to do with Clarinets). Also, rename an instrument that has been used for almost 200 years and with a huge repertoire that calls for a "BASS Clarinet" is a silly enterprise.

@@wilhelmorangenbaum163 clarinets break this system. I’d suggest, as a clarinet player myself: Sopranino: Eb, Ab Soprano: A, Bb, C, D Alto: G Tenor: Basset Horn, Eb “alto” Bass: Bass Contrabass: Contrabass in both Eb and Bb Clarinets have a huge range because they overblow at the 12th, the B flat and A can serve both the soprano and alto role very very well, with a range from D3/C#3 to F6/E6.

@@LordFloofTM Well, we're actually not that far apart in our views, the groupings you use kinda follows the same logic my groupings follow. Some little things: - The Ab Clarinet is more alike to be a Piccolo instrument than being in the same group with the Eb, I personally group the Ab and the rare high G as Piccolo Clarinets (High G really should be the only one in use, Ab transposition is dumb). I also think that you can call the Eb Clarinet a Piccolo if you want; the term Piccolo is preferably to the term Sopranino (mostly a Saxophone related term) for the most high instrument widely used within a family, the Ab and G Piccolos are really not used that much (Ab is very difficult to play well). - The D Clarinet is more alike to the Sopranino Eb than to the Soprano Clarinets, composers used to score for the D Clarinet in conjunction with the Eb just like the Bb/A pair. - I agree with you than the "alto" member should be the instrument in G, I call it "Clarinet d'Amore". I also think that the Schwenk & Seggelke design used by Richard Haynes should become the standard design for all G Clarinets used in Classical Music. - But the problem with the G Clarinet is that it is still too obscure and specialized of an instrument to give it the position of the alto instrument within the family. That's why the Alto Clarinet is called that way, because it is the most widely available instrument right bellow the sopranos. There were a time when the Alto Clarinet was called a Tenor Clarinet in England. I really see no major issue in calling the instrument Alto Clarinet or Tenor Clarinet as long you know what instrument you are referring to. -No objection to the other members.