Klarinet Archive - Posting 000094.txt from 1997/02

From: Roger Shilcock
Subj: F#-G# trill (was Playing the Wrong Clarinet) (fwd)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 08:49:31 -0500

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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 07:22:43 +0600
From: Frank Garcia <fgarcia%STAFF.UWSUPER.EDU@-----.UK>
Subject: F#-G# trill (was Playing the Wrong Clarinet)

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

The big difference between clarinets & saxes is that clarinets are (mostly)
made
with a break in the middle. If you have a look at an articulated G# clari
(I'm speaking from memory, I have to admit), you will see that it
involves *another* pair of pieces of metal to align across the middle joint.
The mechanism generally also uses springs working against one another. I
suspect that unless you are another S-- P-- or C-- F--, it's more trouble
than it's worth on a normally constructed instrument.
Roger Shilcock

   
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