Klarinet Archive - Posting 000054.txt from 1997/02

From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Playing the Wrong Clarinet
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 14:19:30 -0500

Dave,
Thanks.
I tried that fingering, but it is way, way out of tune on my clarinet
(Buffet Prestige R-13). The G# comes out like a flat A natural, stuffy and
out of tune- can't even come close to sounding like anything other then a
kazoo that way). I'm performing Carmen in 2 weeks, and find now that I can
just play the trill F#-G# no problem with the regular fingering up to
speed. ( I play the Nielsen Concerto first page high B-D 32nd notes
straight also)

At 12:55 PM 1/29/97 +0000, David B. Niethamer wrote:
>David Blumberg 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/
>
>
David C. Blumberg
reedman@-----.com
Principal Clarinet Riverside Symphonia
Adjunct Woodwind Instructor Univ. of Penn,. Bryn Mawr College