Klarinet Archive - Posting 000042.txt from 1997/02

From: "David B. Niethamer" <niethamer@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Playing the Wrong Clarinet
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 07:15:46 -0500

David Bluberg wrote:

>Ya' know what? I thought of an example that I do use my A clarinet for the
>sake of playability, and convience. It is in Carmen - The big clarinet solo
>that includes a F#-G# trill (top line F#) that is for the most part
>impossible to play rapidly by anyone. That was dumb writing on Bizet's
>part!

David - I have a great fingering, and my lesson prices are cheap!!!

(for all the rest of you, play f# (RH 2nd finger, not chromatic
fingering) and trill the 1st finger of the **LH**). You'll have to lip it
down, but it works fine. Courtesy of Herb Blayman, who used it at the Met
Opera for years!

David

David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
niethamer@-----.edu
dbnclar1@-----.com
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/

   
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