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	Orchestration: Contrabass Clarinet
		The contrabass clarinet is pitched in the key of Bb, and parts for it are universally written transposed in treble clef, as if it were a Bb soprano clarinet.
		As a result, the contrabass part tends not to move as quickly as the bass clarinet (or soprano clarinet) parts, although it is likely to be at least as agile as a bass saxophone, and probably at least as agile as a bass trombone or tuba.
		The contrabass clarinet is not a particularly common instrument.
	www.contrabass.com /pages/orch-cbcl.html (698 words)

	Contrabass clarinet - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		It is a B♭ instrument, although the E♭ contra-alto clarinet is sometimes referred to as the E♭ contrabass clarinet.
		The contrabass clarinet is also sometimes known by the name pedal clarinet—this term referring not to any aspect of the instrument's mechanism but to an analogy between its very low tones and the pedal tones of the trombone, or the pedal department of the organ.
		Unlike other clarinets, the contrabass clarinet is usually built with only a single trill key used by the right hand instead of four of them.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Contrabass_clarinet (270 words)

	Clarinet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In classical music, clarinets are part of standard orchestral instrumentation, which frequently includes two clarinetists playing individual parts — each player usually equipped with a pair of standard clarinets in B flat and A. Clarinet sections grew larger during the 19th century, employing a third clarinetist or a bass clarinet.
		Clarinets are also commonly found in jazz, especially in its earlier forms such as the Big Band music of the 1930s and 1940s.
		Clarinet choirs and quartets often play arrangements of both classical and popular music, in addition to a body of literature specially written for a combination of clarinets by composers such as Arnold Cooke, Alfred Uhl, Lucien Caillet and Vaclav Nehlybel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clarinet (4160 words)

	Contrabass Clarinet
		The contrabass clarinet is pitched in Bb, two octaves below the Bb soprano clarinet (one octave below the bass clarinet), with a range frequently extended downward to low D or C (the lowest Bb on the piano).
		The Eb contrabass (also known as the "contra-alto" or "contralto") is also available in loop or straight forms, in metal or wood, from Selmer (Paris) (rosewood), Selmer/Bundy (resonite), Buffet Crampon (wood), Leblanc (metal), and Vito (resonite).
		It is pitched in between the Bb bass and the Bb contrabass instruments, with low range to Eb, D or C (concert Gb, F or Eb, an octave below the bass clef).
	www.contrabass.com /pages/cbcl.html (660 words)

	Clarinet
		Clarinets are descendants of the chalumeau, with a cylindrical bore and a single reed.
		Clarinets are relatively recent additions to the orchestra and are standard instruments in the concert band, symphonic band, military bands, wind ensembles, and chamber ensembles.
		The clarinet sound is produced by the vibrations of the reed attached to the mouthpiece as the air moves across it.
	www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/textc/Clarinet.html (541 words)

	Facts about topic: (Contrabass clarinet) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The contrabass clarinet is the largest member of the common clarinet (A single-reed instrument with a straight tube) family.
		(The Eb contrabass clarinet is also known as the contra-alto clarinet (additional info and facts about contra-alto clarinet).) The contra, as it is sometimes called, sounds two octaves below the "standard" Bb Soprano Clarinet, and one octave below the Bb bass clarinet (A large clarinet whose range is an octave below the B-flat clarinet).
		While larger clarinets such as the octocontrabass (which sounds three octaves below the "standard" Bb Soprano clarinet) and the octocontralto have been made, this is the lowest commonly used clarinet.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/contrabass_clarinet.htm (145 words)

	PEDAL CLARINET - LoveToKnow Article on PEDAL CLARINET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The tube is doubled up twice upon itself; at the upper end the beak mouthpiece stands out like the head of a viper, while at the lower a metal tube, in the shape of a U with a wide gloxinea-shaped bell, is joined to the wooden tube.
		There are 13 keys and 2 rings on the tube, and the fingering is the same as for the B flat clarinet except for the eight highest semitones.
		A contrabass clarinet in F, an octave below the basset horn, constructed b Albert of Brussels in 1890, was, we believe, considered successfu but it differed in design from the pedal clarinet.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PE/PEDAL_CLARINET.htm (328 words)

	Encyclopedia: Contrabass clarinet
		The contra-alto clarinet is a large, low-sounding musical instrument of the clarinet family.
		The contrabass clarinet is also sometimes known by the name pedal clarinet Ã¢ÂÂ”this term referring not to any aspect of the instrument's mechanism but to an analogy between its very low tones and the pedal tones of the trombone, or the pedal department of the organ.
		The contrabass clarinet is pitched in Bb, two octaves below the Bb soprano clarinet (one octave below the bass clarinet), with a range frequently extended downward to low D or C (the lowest Bb on the piano).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Contrabass-clarinet (605 words)

	CLARINET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Clarinets are usually pitched in the key of B flat or A, although there are other harmony clarinets in the keys of C, Eb, D, and Ab.
		The main body of the clarinet is divided into the clarion joint whose holes and most keys are operated by the left hand, and the chalumeau joint with holes and most keys operated by the right hand.
		Early clarinets did not play well in the lower register, so chalumeaux continued to be made to play the low notes and these notes became known as the chalumeau register.
	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/cl/Clarinet.htm (1109 words)

	Contrabass clarinet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It is a Bb; instrument, although the Eb; contra-alto clarinet is sometimes referred to as the Eb; contrabass clarinet.
		The contra, as it is sometimes called, sounds two octaves below the "standard" Bb; soprano clarinet, and one octave below the Bb; bass clarinet.
		Older Contrabass Clarinet models have a range extending down to low Eb, but newer Selmer and Leblanc models can play down to low C. Probably the most known contrabass clarinet player is Anthony Braxton.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Contrabass_clarinet (317 words)

	Woodwind Central - Clarinet Info
		Like other cylindrical tubes, the clarinet overblows at the interval not of its first upper partial, the interval of an octave (as the flute and oboe do), but at its 2nd (the interval of a 12th).
		The notes of the instrument's first octave are obtained in the normal way and the gap of a 5th before the overblowing begins has to be filled by additional side-holes which leave the tone weaker at this point and the fingering somewhat more awkward.
		Reeds may be either single, as in the clarinet family, or double (in the latter the two halves of the mouthpiece itself being pieces of reed vibrating against each other).
	baroque-music.com /wc/info/clarinet.shtml (470 words)

	Graham Nasby's Online Resources - Concert Band Instrumentation
		Contrabass sarrusphone parts do not exist in band music, but the instrument is sometimes used instead of a contrabassoon.
		Some bass clarinets will have their range extended down to a low C by way of extra keys and being much longer, however these instruments are extremely expensive and quite rare.
		Contra bass clarinets are pitched in BBb, two octaves below the regular Bb clarinet, and often have an extended low range down to Eb, D or C. Contrabass clarinets are also sometimes called Pedal Clarinets, term that is sometimes used in England and other European countries.
	www.grahamnasby.com /misc/concertband-instrumentation.shtml (6317 words)

	Contrabass Clarinet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		So I want to ask you guys which contrabass do you think is easier to play: the Eb or the lower Bb, and if someone could tell me some techniques about these instruments that may make playing a little more....
		Using contrabass clarinets is pretty un heard of, at least where I have lived.
		They are the piccolo flute of the clarinet family.
	www.8notes.com /f/26_154926.asp (716 words)

	List of instrumentation
		Piccolo clarinet in Aflat, 2 Eflat clarinets, 4 Bb clarinets, 2 Alto clarinets i Elat, 2 Bassett horns in F, 3 Bass clarinets in Bflat, Contraalto clarinet in Eflat, Contrabass clarinet in Bflat
		Bassett horn in F/Alto clarinet in Eflat, Bass clarinet in Bflat/Alto clarinet in Eflat, Bass clarinet in Bflat/Contraalto clarinet in Eflat, Contrabass clarinet in Bflat/Contraalto clarinet in Eflat
		Piccolo clarinet in Aflat, Eflat clarinet, 7 Bb clarinets, 2 Alto clarinets in Eflat, 2 Bassetts horn in F, 2 Bass clarinets in Bflat, 2 Contraalto clarinets in Eflat, Contrabass clarinet in Bflat, Octocontraalto clarinet in Eflat, Octocontrabass clarinet in Bflat
	kunst.no /lerstad/besetninger_engelsk.html (2851 words)

	December Tidbits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A clarinet type instrument has been around for many hundreds of years, although the instrument that we recognize as a clarinet wasn't invented until the end of the 17th century.
		Some clarinets are made with a different set of keys; although the Boehm system is the most common, both the Albert system and the Auler (pronounced oiler) system are still in use.
		Clarinets come in many different sizes and all are transposing instruments, which means that the music for the clarinets is written in different pitches than the note actually sounds.
	users.rcn.com /muffitt/tidbits/tidbits-dec.htm (1206 words)

	Graham Nasby's Online Resources - Clarinet Family
		The type of clarinet you are probably most familiar with is the "Bb Clarinet" - this is the clarinet most often used in bands, jazz and orchestras.
		The most obvious clarinet missing from these pictures is the Eb contrabass clarinet (aka Contra-alto clarinet, EEb clarinet); this a contrabass clarinet pitched midway between the Bb bass and BBb contrabass clarinets.
		The second instrument that is missing is the basset clarinet; it is exactly like the A clarinet except that it has keywork down to a low C (it is made famous by Mozart's clarinet concerto K622).
	www.grahamnasby.com /misc/clarinet_family.shtml (441 words)

	Contrabass saxophone, largest woodwind instrument unique giant musical instrument
		He is one of the few musicians in the world to perform on the entire saxophone and clarinet families.
		As for saxophone quartets, while the baritone saxophone is a supremely flexible instrument, the contrabass adds a true low end to the group, and a creates an entirely new range of timbral possibilities.
		In a wind ensemble, the contrabass sax can be used to give the woodwinds equal footing with the low brass by transposing from contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet, or string bass parts.
	www.oddmusic.com /gallery/om08500.html (250 words)

	Sarrusophone, Rothphone (Saxorusophone) and Reed Contrabass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Between the time of the first bass clarinet and the first saxophone patents, Sax was developing the general idea that the characteristic sound of a particular instrument could be realised through a family of instruments, the composite range of which would go from the deepest bass to the highest soprano.
		The contrabass model in G would be comparable in pitch to a half contrabassoon or semi-contrabassoon and the bourdon to a contrabassoon.
		Although manufacturers of the manifold reed contrabass constructions that have been described by Eppelsheim[64] usually gave the name contrabassoon" to their creations, there were so few similarities to the positions of keys, the fingerings, and the bore relationships of the normal bassoon that bassoonists could not easily accept them.
	idrs.colorado.edu /Publications/Journal/JNL17/JNL17.Joppig.Sarrus.html (7911 words)

	Altissimo fingerings
		This phenomenon, which does not exist on bass clarinets with single-hole venting, is the primary reason for the addition of an "S" (for Selmer and Buffet-Crampon instruments) or an "L" (for older Leblanc and others) next to particular fingerings.
		When I first tryed a contrabass clarinet 15 years ago, I was surprised that I could not play higher than the C played with thumb and register key, and the few pieces I had very seldom went higher.
		The contra instruments (the Eb contra alto clarinet (sometimes called Eb contrabass) and Bb contra bass clarinet) have an automatic venting mechanism, and by closing the third finger of the right hand (thus changing register keys) you raise the pitch (useful for the notes d#3-a#3).
	kunst.no /lerstad/altissimo.html (1190 words)

	Alto, contra alto, contrabass clarinet for students? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The high school I was in had only one bass clarinet and I was the only one playing it after it was colleting dust for over a decade.
		My school has 4 bass clarinets 3 alto clarinets, one contrabass(that is usually used by the highschool) and 2 or 3 contra alto`s.
		No contrabass though at our school--it has broken and the weather made it difficult to maintain the larger clarinets without problems, especially during the winter.
	www.8notes.com /f/26_38080.asp (1002 words)

	Contrabass Compendium
		Contrabass Clarinet in GG Contrabasset Horn in FF Contralto Clarinet in EEb
		Contrabass Oboe in FF Contrabass Oboe in CC
		Contrabass Sarrusophone in CC Contrabass Sarrusophone in BBb
	www.contrabass.com /pages/compendium.html (148 words)

	Leblanc On-line Bell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In particular, Miller is enamored of the sound of the deeper-voiced members of the clarinet family, specifically the contrabass.
		As he explored the music, he discovered the contrabass clarinet through musicians like Anthony Braxton, who became a musical hero, and fell deeper in love with the low end.
		He sees the bass and the contrabass clarinets as “wild” in the sense that no perceived stylistic restrictions have been prescribed for them.
	www.gleblanc.com /bell/Winter2002/storys/max.cfm (1693 words)

	RE: Contrabass clarinet (BBb) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As far as I know, the Contrabass is played exactly the same as any other clarinet.
		In this way, the hand positions and fingering are the same as a normal clarinet.
		The tube of the contrabass is bent around and around, so that the whole instrument is manageable, even if the tube is 6 feet long.
	www.wfg.woodwind.org /BBoard/read.html?id=910 (87 words)

	Kirkland Concert Band: Clarinet Links
		This instrument, colloquially known as the "licorice stick", occupies a position in the concert band that is similar to that of the violin section in an orchestra.
		Alto and bass clarinets are less common, but when available they add depth and colour to the low woodwinds.
		The Eb clarinet and relatively rare contrabass clarinet round out the high and low ends, respectively, of the range.
	alcor.concordia.ca /~smw/kcb/english/instruments/clarinet.html (267 words)

	Re: Alto, contra alto, contrabass clarinet for students? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		My school starts people on a few bass clarinets and Bb clarinets, then when they get to the second semester of eighth grade, 1 person gets to play the contrabass clarinet.
		In older, more traditional music like Mozart, there are often Alto Clarinet parts as the alto clarinet is being used to replace the bassett horn which was pretty popular in arrangements.
		This is how it is around here: My junior high school had nothing more special than the Bb soprano clarinets, until a parent donated their bass clarinet to the school.
	www.8notes.com /f/26_38080.asp?spage=2 (940 words)

	Contrabass Mania
		Please also feel free to join the Contrabass email list, currently available in regular or digest formats.
		musical instrument factory, where contrabass saxophones and sarrusophones are still manufactured.
		Warning signs that you might be a Contrabass Maniac too...
	www.contrabass.com (319 words)

	Vito, 7182, BBb Contrabass Clarinet : Clarinets -> BBb - musicalinstruments.com
		Vito, 7182, BBb Contrabass Clarinet : Clarinets -> BBb - musicalinstruments.com
		Vito model 7182 contrabass clarinet is pitched one octave lower than the bass clarinet and is the true bass of the clarinet family.
		Finger button placement is designed with the beginning contrabass player in mind, yet it is ideal for the advanced player.
	www.musicalinstruments.com /detail.asp?ProductCode=Vit7182 (97 words)

	contrabass clarinet a.k.a. the contra alto
		The contrabass and contra-alto clarinets are NOT the same instrument.
		There are five clarinets: Sopranino in E-flat, Soprano in B-flat, Alto in E-flat, Bass in B-flat, Contra-alto in E-flat, and Contra-bass in B-flat.
		There are five clarinets that are commonly played.
	www.8notes.com /f/26_81408.asp?spage=1 (579 words)

	Michael Moors' Clarinet Page
		In addition to teaching and adjudication, he has maintained a sizable clarinet studio (currently unavailable) and is a guest soloist.
		To compliment his clarinet emphasis, he has taught elementary school, middle school and high school levels.
		The focus of the session was to aid non-clarinetists in developing tone quality and intonation in their clarinet sections.
	www.ehhs.cmich.edu /~mmoors (283 words)

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