Klarinet Archive - Posting 000434.txt from 1996/05

From: Fernando Silveira <fersilv@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: High G in Stravinsky's 3 pieces
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 22:04:16 -0400

Of course the best position will work better in some horns and worst in
anothers, but is good you have some positions to try on your horn.
Fernando Silveira

At 01:27 19/05/96 -0400, you wrote:
>> > At 08:33 14/05/96 -0600, you wrote:
>> > >>Hello. What fingerings do people out there recommend for the two double
>> > >>high G's in the last seven beats of the second movement of Stravinsky's
>> > >>Three Pieces for clarinet solo?
>> > >>
>> > >>For those of you who don't know the piece too well, the passage goes from
> a
>> > >>high G up an octave and then back down an octave. It is very fast
>> > >>(eighth=168), slurred on the way up but the lower octave is tongued
on the
>> > >>way down.
>> > >>
>> > >>Thanks,
>> > >>Christopher Rohrs
>
>OK, here's my entry in the Swepstakes.
>
> T O
> X X
> X
> C#/G#
> ____
> X
> X
> O
> Ab/Eb
>
>For me Fernando Silveira's is too sharp, necesitating too much embouchure
>adjustment. Ann Dempsey's is too flat, though it is my fingering of
>choice for the G's in the 3rd mvt of Beethoven Sym #8. eric nelson's is
>also just a bit too flat (all of this relating to *my* instrument/mpc,
>mind you).
>
>My fingering, without the C#/G# key, doesn't speak very reliably, but
>with it, works like a charm - speaks with good intonation and a well
>matched sound to the lower octave.
>
>David Niethamer
>
>> > >Try this one, it works for me:
>> > >
>> > > T X
>> > > X O
>> > > X
>> > > ___
>> > > X
>> > > X
>> > > O
>> > > Ab-Eb
>> > >
>> > >e
>> > >
>> > >eric nelson
>> > >lightwood duo
>> > >
>> > >
>> > I make it like that
>> >
>> > T O
>> > X X
>> > O
>> >
>> > -----
>> > X
>> > X
>> > O
>> > Ab-Eb
>> >
>> > Fernando Silveira
>> >
>> I use this one
>>
>> T X
>> X O
>> X
>> --------
>> X
>> O
>> X
>> Ab-Eb
>>
>> Ann Dempsey
>
>