Klarinet Archive - Posting 000725.txt from 1995/12

From: Ted Burton <tburton@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Clarinet Fingering Chart
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 21:22:04 -0500

>Something that really puzzles me: Can most clarinet players sight read
>music written in concert pitch as easily as music written 'clarinet'
>pitch? I >understand there is a history as to why b-flat clarinets are
>what they
>are, but it seems strange that modern students aren't just taught the
>concert pitch names for each fingerings. It would make things much
>simpler.

For anyone reading fake books or lead sheets for everything, learning to
read concert pitch would be great. From a wider perspective, a musician
playing more than one woodwind instrument will find that many of the
fingerings, and corresponding note names, are the same because of the
system of transposing fingerings. If we all read concert pitch, the
fingerings for flute, and saxophone would be much different than that of
the clarinet. The similarity between fingerings also helps the band
director teach fingerings to a class of varied instruments.

For your needs, learning the concert pitch names may be easier, but it
would confuse me to death.

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