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Rendering clarinets well: mids or upper mids?

post #1 of 4
4/28/10 at 5:06pm
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Hello!
I love clarinets and their sweet, lush tone… the way they cut through large orchestras…

May I ask as to which part of the audible range is mostly involved in rendering clarinets? (Fundamental and harmonics)… Mids / Upper Mids (4000-6000 Hz)
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post #2 of 4
4/28/10 at 5:18pm
As far as I recall about a 6th below C4 to about 3 C's above so in the range about 300Hz-3000Hz. Normal Range probably 500Hz-1000Hz. Mids in other words.
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post #3 of 4
4/29/10 at 4:37pm
It doesn't give the numbers, but here's a good wiki page showing the ranges of all the instruments relative to each other (with absolute scale at the top).
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post #4 of 4
4/29/10 at 8:12pm
From back in my mucking about with the instrument, I think a clarinet in a wind ensemble usually serves a similar purpose to a violin in an orchestra...mainly as the "vocal" part of the piece. So yeah...what Marcus_C said. Mid range mostly.

If you have a piece that strains the upper ends of the clarinet's register, it can get a little into the higher range as well, but it becomes more difficult to create a satisfying tone so it's a little rarer to hear that outside of some very demanding pieces.

Assuming you're talking about the B flat clarinet, which is the most common flavor.
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