Klarinet Archive - Posting 000092.txt from 1997/02

From: Frank Garcia <fgarcia@-----.EDU>
Subj: F#-G# trill (was Playing the Wrong Clarinet)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 08:17:31 -0500

David Niethamer uses the fingering that I use for the Carmen passage. I do
not know if the fingering works differently on the A, because, like David,
I haven't come across the need to use that fingering on the A.

I wish to stray off the subject a little and ask why manufacturers do not
make clarinets with articulated G# keys any more? Or if they do, why is it
not commonplace? It seems to work so nicely on the saxophone, why not the
clarinet?

Frank Garcia

>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