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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000070.txt from 2003/07
From: PhilFrei@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Re: Anti-note glitches
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 16:12:33 -0400
In a message dated 7/20/03 10:02:18 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
doublereed-l-request@-----.edu writes:
> From: "Todd Zimnoch" <toddz@-----.net>
> To: <doublereed-l@-----.edu>
> Subject: RE: [DR-L] Anti-note glitches
> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 19:20:05 -0400
> Reply-To: doublereed-l@-----.edu
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Mel Beiman
> >To: doublereed-l@-----.edu
> >Subject: Re: [DR-L] Anti-note glitches
> >
> >Phil,
> >
> >Let go of the low C key when going to forked F. The C
> >key may be closing the
> >2nd finger key on the right hand. Forked F will not
> >work if that key is closed.
>
> I don't think that was the point of his question. I assume he
> didn't ask something quite so silly.
Thanks Todd!
Glitches happen. It was just curious to me that some of them are
qualitatively more disruptive than others. I agree that dropping to G from half-hole D can
be dicey. It seems that holding the half-hole open with a G and closing it,
it takes the G longer to establish, than holding the half-hole open with an A
and closing it. (I also have had problems arriving at Ab from the half-hole
notes.) I remember thinking the d-g drop was the hardest part of the famous
Pulcinella excerpt (not the C octave drops). I think the key to that one is the
timing of the closing of the half-hole. I've been working at pre-positioning the
left index finger so it doesn't have to rotate as much to close, and that has
been helping.
(That and keeping the pressure light on that finger has been tremendous in
helping arriving on the third octave D, which has pretty much ceased to be a
problem.)
I'm not getting the E - C# problems Todd mentioned, but part of it is this
reed I have right now. It is too good! Even in the case of C-forked F, the F
springs out right away after the offending late C is picked up, instead of
causing that curious and annoying moment of silence before the note arrives.
- Phil Freihofner
