The chalumeau had throat keys! I have one, it has keys. All the surviving chalumeaux from the baroque period had keys. The modern makers that make them without keys are making toy instruments. Most modern makers put throat keys on. You could in fact play most of the gap between the highest notes and the overblown 12th. The only note it lacked was the semitone just below the 12th. On a soprano chalumeau, you get a range of F' - Bb'', F'-Ab" through the finger holes, A" and Bb" through the throat keys. You then overblow to get C, the only note missing is B natural. But you will probably pass out if you go too high because it is not good at playing in the overblown register without a register key.
The frustrating bit about being a clarinet player is how much of the music is written for that throat and jumps between lower register and higher register.
For the clarinet, there are a lot of notes higher than second c above the treble clef. The highest I’ve seen is a f8 or the 3rd f above the treble clef.
Sure, but that's more of a soloist/specialist kind of range. The concert range that you can expect from the average pro section clarinetist is what I've shown here.
Can clarinets that have extensions below E overblow those extension notes as well? Allowing some passages to be played exclusively using overblown notes that would otherwise have had to cross the break.
Actually, I used to play bass clarinet and had a cheap one that only went down to Eb. In investigating, it seems that they commonly go farther down to C.
@@lesliefranklin1870 I know that clarinets with extensions below E exist. Basset horns are another one that goes down to C. Whether it's possible to overblow the extension notes is the part I didn't know.
Do you mean except for the ones I scored in the video? I've seen high notes from written G6 to C7 often enough in contemporary music. They're playable with a good player.
OrchestrationOnline yeah the ones ABOVE c above the staff. Im an experienced player and can play them quite easily, but im just pointing out that from my experience in wind ensembles and orchestras, its really uncommon to see anything above altissimo G,
