Klarinet Archive - Posting 000013.txt from 1994/09

From: "Jay Heiser, Business Development" <jayh@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Prokofieff's Peter and The Wolf (low blow)
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 15:59:09 -0400

-->Toward the beginning of this piece at rehearsal number 11 the Bb clarinet
goes
-->down to a low d# (Eb). How do you finger that note? All my fingering charts
-->only go to an E!
-->
-->Thanks for any help on this.
-->
-->Roy

This is a good one -- I was going to comment on the same subject today,
but I got so much flack on my discussion of the proper method of sticking
a foot into a bari sax bell (which act I successfully performed in
1/2 performances on my new bari this Spring), that I wasn't sure if
I'd bring it up or not. ;-)

Everybody in the cast & pit figures that the woodwinds are crazy, so
nobody really noticed last night when we all started pointing to the
4th Reed part and laughing. It not only had a low Eb, but it was within
parenthesis with the instruction "play if possible". I guess you have to
see the way it looks in manuscript and be at the end of a 3 hour
rehearsal to really appreciate the joke.

I'm not sure that I've ever seen a Bb soprano clarinet with a low Eb.
Just how likely is it that someone will have such a thing? I'm going to
have to experiment with the foot thing or maybe the thigh thing.

Extra credit: How do you say "play if possible" in Italian?
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