bass clarinet

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   a large clarinet whose range is an octave below the B-flat clarinet

   Broaderclarinet

Questions about bass clarinet

What does bass clarinet mean?

bass clarinet means "a large clarinet whose range is an octave below the B-flat clarinet".

Is bass clarinet a common word?

bass clarinet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.