Myron Walden is a jazz saxophonist, flutist, and bass clarinetist.
Myron Walden at the 2014 Newport Jazz Festival
The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B♭ clarinet, it is usually pitched in B♭, but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B♭ clarinet. Bass clarinets in other keys, notably C and A, also exist, but are very rare. Bass clarinets regularly perform in orchestras, wind ensembles and concert bands, and occasionally in marching bands, and play an occasional solo role in contemporary music and jazz in particular.
2 long B♭ bass clarinets: Buffet Crampon Prestige 1193 + Yamaha YCL 622 II
Four modern short bass clarinets, from left to right Leblanc L400, Signet Selmer 1430P, E. M. Winston, Leblanc 330S
Two short bass clarinets, on the right side made from boxwood
Tara Bouman playing bass clarinet