Well now meet their bigger, badder brother: the contrabass clarinet! The contrabass clarinet, also known as a pedal or elephant clarinet, has a 10-foot tube which doubles back on itself twice. The ...

I’m taking my own advice and trying something new yet again. As I sat in concert band one day watching several new instruments being brought out I looked down at my clarinet and said to myself ...

John McCowen's Solo Contra presents an EP-length, finely-sketched portrait of a rarely heard instrument: the contrabass clarinet. It also marks the most recent stage in an eclectic path through music ...

It seemed rather odd to be attending a Paul Fromm Concert by the Contemporary Chamber Players that was not dominated by the avuncular presence of the late, great musical patron to whom these annual… ...

*growl* *tweet* *growl* *tweet* This duet between a contrabass clarinet and a piccolo A-flat clarinet is not too dissimilar to a bear playing with a baby bird. Yet, while the intriguing partnership of ...

German multiple reed man Steffen Schorn plays a wide array of wind instruments: tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass and subcontrabass saxophones; Bb, bass, contra-alto and contrabass clarinets, along ...

The Clarinet Choir of the New Orleans Concert Band, a group consisting of 15 clarinets, performs traditional and contemporary music at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 24, at the East Bank Regional Library ...