Klarinet Archive - Posting 000086.txt from 1997/02

From: "David B. Niethamer" <niethamer@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Playing the Wrong Clarinet (fwd)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 00:12:11 -0500

David Bluberg wrote:
>
>...in Carmen - The big clarinet solo
>>that includes a F#-G# trill (top line F#) that is for the most part
>>impossible to play ...

and I responded:

>...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!
>
Roger Shilcock inquired:

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

I'm pretty sure it does on mine, though I'll check for certain tomorrow.
I can't think of any ecxposed f#/g# trills on A clar in the rep, so I
cna't remember for sure.

David

David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
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