Basset horns and larger clarinets are supported with a neck strap or a floor peg.
On alto and larger clarinets, and a few soprano clarinets, key-covered holes replace some or all finger holes.
On basset horns and larger clarinets, the bell curves up and forward and is usually made of metal.
Some clarinets have a single joint: on some basset horns and larger clarinets the two joints are held together with a screw clamp and are usually not disassembled for storage.
Metal soprano clarinets were popular in the early 20th century, until plastic instruments supplanted them; metal construction is still used for the bodies of some contra-alto and contrabass clarinets, and for the necks and bells of nearly all alto and larger clarinets.
While the score for Speed only used strings, French horns, and percussion, Speed 2 used a wider variety of instruments including trombones, large woodwinds, bass clarinets, and contrabassoons.
On the other hand, I wrote a large chunk of my Clarinet Concerto, an expressionistic piece I particularly like, in a hotel room in Minnesota some years ago, so I know it can be done.
Members in the largest section: 117 (clarinets) Members in the smallest section: 21 (bass clarinets) tuba players: 26 When Preston Miller, a 15-year-old from Allen, Tex., first picked up a tuba, he knew he had found his instrument.
In "Kraft," his breakthrough work from 1985, he augmented a large modern orchestra with amplified clarinet, cello, piano and percussion soloists, vocal chatter, junkyard drums and players dispersed among the audience.
Finally the evil has to give way, a last attempt and then it flees — and with a strophe thereafter in consoling major mode a solo clarinet ends this large idyll-movement, an expression of vegetative (idle, thoughtless) Nature.
