Bass Clarinet
C6 on the Bass Clarinet
Written C6 — sounds concert B♭4. Tap the diagram to hear it.
C6
Concert B♭4
Register key and thumb, everything else open — the top of the clarion register and the top of this chart. The altissimo above C6 on bass clarinet uses different vents and half-hole fingerings from the soprano, so it is not listed here.
About this note
Register key and thumb, everything else open — the top of the clarion register and the top of this chart. The altissimo above C6 on bass clarinet uses different vents and half-hole fingerings from the soprano, so it is not listed here.
- Primary fingering: Register key + Thumb hole
- Written pitch: C6 · Concert pitch: B♭4
- Sounding frequency: 466.16 Hz
Trill fingerings
- C6 ↔ D6 (Trill the side G♯ key): Register key + Thumb hole + G♯ key
Bass Clarinet fingering data last updated . Every diagram here, in the printable PDF and in the chart image comes from one dataset, so the paper and the screen cannot disagree.