Talk:Basset clarinet

The picture
Are you absolutely sure that that's a basset clarinet? It looks to me like a B-flat with a low E-flat extension (so you can reach the A clarinet written low E). Kranf (talk) 13:50, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

That is right. The Basset clarinet has three more keys, see here: Photo of a frensh basset clarinet. In the 20th century the first Basset clarinet was made 1948 by Rudol Trejdal in Prague for the clarinet player Milan Kostohryz. It was a Selmer clarinet in A, which got a longer lower joint. So I removed the photo.--Gisel (talk) 16:35, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Dangling reference to missing picture
"Two of those programmes show an engraving of Stadler's instrument (see image)." No such image! Yayyy!
 * Image added on May 9, 2020. Gisel (talk) 04:11, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Terts
A niggle: "of a terts down" to mean "major third" is avoidable and rather recherche jargon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.36.140.233 (talk) 17:56, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree, so i just changed it. Qwfp (talk) 19:26, 22 June 2012 (UTC) I love clarinets I think they are good to use.

Nonsensical statement
"Because Mozart's clarinet concerto is so important, the basset clarinet is quite an interesting instrument in spite of its small applicability."

The instrument becomes "interesting" because of the Mozart CC? If the CC didn't exist, the instrument would somehow transform itself into dullness? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:643:8104:730:C1E0:691F:21BD:47A1 (talk) 07:38, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
 * No, but people would be markedly less interested in it. Double sharp (talk) 13:15, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
 * There is also not just a Mozart low C, but also a low B. Double sharp (talk) 04:02, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

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low B natural
Some basset clarinets actually go down to the low B♮1 (sounding G♯2). There are some passages in Mozart's KV 581 and KV 622 that seem to demand this low note: it may be heard in Jane Booth and the Eybler Quartet's recording on the former. Double sharp (talk) 03:54, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
 * (As explicit examples, consider KV 622/i, b. 295 and KV 622/iii, b. 147, both mentioned in the source I just added.) Double sharp (talk) 06:40, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I have updated this article (along with the Chinese, French, and German WP articles, as I also understand those languages well enough to do this) to mention the occasional presence of a low B♮. Double sharp (talk) 07:01, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Removal of the photo KV 622 basset cl.jpg and the text by NHollis0420
Hello Nhollis0420, why did you? Gisel (talk) 04:20, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Fingering of the basset notes
I have been playing clarinets for 40 years and repairing them for 25, and never before have I heard clarinet keys referred to as "pushers" -- as they are throughout this section.

Unless someone can provide a good reason -- with citations -- for this unusual terminology, I suggest that "pusher" be replaced with "key" in this section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.253 (talk) 21:19, 5 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Have a look to this picture.clarinet keys.jpg. You see the 3 parts of a key (cover, rod (better axis?) and pusher, the counterpart of a lever. Do you have a better terminology for the parts? -  Gisbert ツ (talk)  Illustrate Wikipedia !   23:42, 6 March 2023 (UTC)