Bass clarinet

The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like standard clarinets, it is usually pitched in B flat (meaning it is a transposing instrument where a written C sounds as B flat), and plays notes an octave below the "normal" B flat clarinet and an octave above the Contrabass clarinet.

References

• "Clarinet", The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments 3 volumes, ed. Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan, 1984.
• Kennicott, Philip. "Notes on The Nutcracker". Dance Magazine 64 (1990):76–7 December 1990.
• Sachs, Curt. A History of Musical Instruments, New York: W.W. Norton, 1940.