Klarinet Archive - Posting 000055.txt from 1997/02

From: Roger Shilcock
Subj: Re: Playing the Wrong Clarinet (fwd)
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 14:19:31 -0500

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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 12:55:03 +0000
From: David B. Niethamer <niethamer%URVAX.URICH.EDU@-----.UK>
Subject: Re: Playing the Wrong Clarinet

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
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dbnclar1@-----.com
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Comment: Yes - but what do you for a F#=G# trill on the A? This fingering
(oddly enough) doesn't work on the A.
Roger Shilcock