You've heard of the clarinet, you've heard of the bass clarinet. Well now meet their bigger, badder brother: the contrabass clarinet! The contrabass clarinet, also known as a pedal or elephant ...

There is something Brobdingnagian about the bass clarinet; the sounds it can make are too grand for our human dimension There is something Brobdingnagian about the bass clarinet; the sounds it can ...

Playing music as part of a group typically requires that not only are all of the instruments tuned to each other, but also that the musicians play in a specific key. For some musicians, like pianists ...

When did you start playing the Bass Clarinet, and what was it about the Bass Clarinet that led you to choose it? The first time I tried Bass Clarinet was at my clarinet teacher's house when I had only ...

The Clarinets is both the name of the all-clarinet improvisational trio of Chris Speed, Oscar Noriega and Anthony Burr, and the title of their new CD, the first release on Speed's new Skirl Records ...

When the Colorado Symphony sets out to recreate scenes from the Disney film “Fantasia” this Saturday, clarinetist Andy Stevens may have a particularly easy job of it. Stevens owns the bass clarinet ...