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The contra-alto clarinet is higher-pitched than the contrabass and is pitched in the key of E ♭ rather than B ♭.The unhyphenated form "contra alto clarinet" is also sometimes used, as is "contralto clarinet", but the latter is confusing since the instrument's range is much lower than the contralto vocal range; the more correct term "contra-alto" is meant to convey, by analogy with ...
The clarinet family is a woodwind instrument family of various sizes and types of clarinets, including the common soprano clarinet in B♭ and A, bass clarinet, and sopranino E♭ clarinet. Clarinets that aren't the standard B♭ or A clarinets are sometimes known as harmony clarinets.
Matt Lavelle (bass clarinet) (born 1970) Joe Maneri (1927–2009) Michael Marcus (born 1952) Joe Marsala (1907–1978) Stan McDonald (born 1935) Hal McKusick (1924–2012) Mezz Mezzrow (1899–1972) Jean-Christian Michel (born 1938) Marcus Miller (born 1959) Gabriele Mirabassi (born 1967) Gussie Mueller (1890–1965) David Murray (born 1955 ...
The contra-alto clarinet [2] is largely a development of the 2nd half of the 20th century, although there were some precursors in the 19th century: . In 1829, Johann Heinrich Gottlieb Streitwolf [], an instrument maker in Göttingen, introduced an instrument tuned in F in the shape and fingering of a basset horn, which could be called a contrabasset horn because it played an octave lower than it.
D clarinet: D 4: B soprano clarinet: B 3: B ♭ clarinet: B ♭ 3: A soprano clarinet: A 3: Basset clarinet: A 3: A ♭ soprano clarinet: A ♭ 3: Clarinet d’amour: G 3: G Basset clarinet G 3: Basset horn F 3: Alto clarinet: E ♭ 3: C bass clarinet C 3: Bass clarinet B ♭ 2: Contra-alto clarinet: E ♭ 2: Contrabass clarinet: B ♭ 1 ...
In 1999 he unveiled the tubax, a reproportioned contrabass saxophone. He also debuted the soprillo, a piccolo saxophone placed an octave above the B♭ soprano saxophone. His redesigned contrabass clarinet was launched in 2006. [2] In collaboration with Guntram Wolf, he developed the contraforte, an improved and redesigned contrabassoon.
The contrabassoon is a very deep-sounding woodwind instrument that plays in the same sub-bass register as the tuba, double bass, or contrabass clarinet.It has a sounding range beginning at B ♭ 0 (or A 0, on some instruments) and extending up over three octaves to D 4, though the highest fourth is rarely scored for.
Contrabass (from Italian: contrabbasso) refers to several musical instruments of very low pitch—generally one octave below bass register instruments. While the term most commonly refers to the double bass (which is the bass instrument in the orchestral string family, tuned lower than the cello), many other instruments in the contrabass register exist.