Contrabass Clarinet

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Uploaded by on Aug 3, 2009

Play That Funky Music White Boy on metal contrabass clarinet! Chateau Monteton, Aquitaine, France, July 2009. Turn up the bass on your Quicktime player!

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  • Your other question - is it worth buying? Well that depends... It requires some commitment. I picked mine up for 1300 pounds and then spent about 800 pounds getting the new mouthpiece and having it serviced. I think it was good value and worth getting at that price. Now it plays well. It plays like a cross between a bohem and albert system clarinet, with 2 register keys. The D and D# over the break are almost unplayable - but its the lower register you buy this puppy for...

  • @Strang3rDanger

    Its true they don't play well - the problem is the mouthpiece. Because the diameter of the bore is much larger than other contrabasses the mouthpiece is just HUGE. It also has a tiny facing making it really hard not to overblow and squeek.

    I had a collar made for mine so that I could fit an ordinary contrabass mouthpiece into it. With really good results. The guy who did it was called Ed Pillinger from North London.

  • @dmarlton Where do you get the reeds to play it? Also.. are they worth buying? I heard they dont play that well but this video somewhat says otherwise.

  • It looks like a paperclip contrabass. haha.

  • it looks like a Baritone saxophone but it has a contra bass Clarinet sound thats pretty cool and nice choice of song! lol

  • Haha it looks like a bari sax

  • Its a Linton dating from the 1970s (produced for them by Orsi). There was only 40 of them ever made. Most are in museums - as far as I know i'm the only person still playing one.

  • What brand of contrabass clarinet is that?

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