Join us 4 October for a concert with discussion and Q&A, all about the Contrabass Clarinet!
I started making a list of a few albums I knew that had contrabass clarinet recordings on them. I never expected that list would grow to nearly 70 albums!
I have a few new albums recently released. All three were actually recorded a while ago, one in 2016 and two in 2017, but have only finally made their way into the public.
The Intramic is similar to pickup-style mics which are fitted onto the barrel or neck of a clarinet or saxophone. The key features of these types of mics are:
*Don’t produce feedback
*Isolated from other instruments on stage
*Even coverage of the entire range of the instrument.
However the Intramic DOESN’T REQUIRE DRILLING INTO THE INSTRUMENT!!
I’ve recently joined the Behn Mouthpieces Artists team. I first became acquainted with Brad Behn’s mouthpieces at the 2013 ClarinetFest in Assisi. I had tried some of his pieces for clarinet, and found one that I really liked in his Signature Collection. It was quite open (something like 1.56 tip opening… typical “classical” mouthpieces are between 1.0-1.10 or so), which I like for klezmer, jazz, and a lot of contemporary music. It blew quite freely, and I had a lot of flexibility for bending notes, multiphonics, and slap tongues. It’s also loud as hell! But what especially caught my attention was how clean and centered the tone still was.