He was featured soloist on many Ellington recordings, including 27 titles on bass clarinet. Instrumentation included strings, bass clarinet and percussion. The second woodwind part doubles on tenor and baritone sax, clarinet, and bass clarinet. He is an inveterate performer, playing mainly guitar, saxophone and bass clarinet. Someone who plays a bass clarinet is called a bass clarinetist. In size it lies between the soprano clarinet and the bass clarinet. His use of the bass clarinet helped to establish the instrument within jazz. There are several instruments that can arguably be considered the first bass clarinet. His instrument achieved great success and became the basis for all bass clarinet designs since. A low, eerie theme played by the bass clarinet followed as Marshall introduced the program. A reed quintet is made up of an oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bass clarinet, and bassoon. Edmund Welles is the name of a bass clarinet quartet based in San Francisco. Later in high school he learned to play other instruments, including bass clarinet and piano. The third reed doubles on flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, and tenor sax. In high school, played the bass clarinet.