What is a contrabos clarinet?
The clarinet, sometimes called the clarinet of the pedal, is the largest member of the clarinet family. It is a musical instrument with a disposable wood that produces a note by two octaves lower than the conventional soprano clarinet. Although larger and therefore lower clarinets were built, clarinet with double bass is the largest that has ever seen regular use.
Compabass clarinets take one of two shapes: "loops" smuggled clarinets have a tube that curls twice. The tool bell may appear above or below the mouthpiece. These clarinets are also known as clarinets of "paper associations" because of their characteristic shape. "Direct" clarinets have a tube that only curves once, and creates a long, direct tool with a bell on the bottom. This type of double bass clarinet is superficially similar to a very large saxophone.
The typical double clarinet is built in BBB, which means that the note creates sounds of two octaves and the main second lower note. Musicians usually call tEnto tool "BB Compabass clarinet" due to comfort. However, a similar tool, Contra-Alto or Contralto Clarinet, is built in EEB, which means that its remark is two octaves and the main sixth under a written note. The physical resemblance between the two instruments sometimes leads musicians to refer to the EEB Contralto Clarinet as clarinet EEB or EB.
Several tools that preset the double bass clarinet originated during the 19th century, but none of them achieved permanent popularity as long as the acoustics Charles Houvenahagel developed a version on which all modern examples are based. Houvenahagel worked with the French tool manufacturer Georges Leblanc and his son Léon. The aim of the Houvenaghel was to create a complete clarinet choir that would have the same musical range as the SEC orchestral chain. For this purpose he created a wide range of different types of clarinet, including small soprano and accountsRabass.
Class clarinet is not nearly as widely used as the ubiquitous soprano clarinet. There is only very small music for solo double bass, but plays a role in some orchestral compositions, including the work of composers such as Richard Strauss, Olivier Messiaen and Jazz Legend Charles Mingus. Frank Zappa also used it in his experimental music. One of the most important supporters of the instrument is the jazz musician and academic Anthony Braxton, who uses this instrument along with the double bass saxophone in a number of his avant -garde compositions.