Bass Clarinet: Brief Description — Vienna Symphony Library

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“Classification
Aerophone, single-reed instrument, woodwind

Material
Tube: wood (rosewood, grenadilla) or silver-plated metal; keywork: nickel silver, silver; bell: brass

Mouthpiece
Beak-shaped mouthpiece with a single reed, larger than the clarinet’s

Tube
Mainly cylindrical, crook between the mouthpiece and the body; angled bell

Total length 
Approx. 132 cm

Bore
Medium, inner diameter roughly twice as large as the clarinet’s

Keys/tone holes
Boehm or Oehler mechanism (as on the clarinet)

Bell
Funnel-shaped, angled upward; rim diameter 13 cm

Spike
For resting the instrument on the floor

Tuning
In Bb”

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