Klarinet Archive - Posting 000043.txt from 1997/05

From: clarinat@-----.com (Nathaniel Johnson)
Subj: Re: 1+1 fingering
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 18:16:59 -0400

I'm not familiar with this fingering (2+1 A-flat). Is it thumb & 1st two
fingers on the left hand and just the index finger on the right? If this
is the case then the bridge key, I would think, doesn't enter into it (as
the key that it is designed to depress is already depressed by the middle
finger of the left hand). Can you plese explain? Thanx,

Nathaniel Johnson
Conductor / Clarinettist
All-Around Good Guy
University of Northern Colorado
clarinat@-----.com

On Thu, 01 May 1997 22:50:43 -0700 Lord Rob
<rteitelbaum@-----.EDU> writes:
>>But really, would you
>>considering using the 2+2 A-flat as weak as it sounds even though it
>>keeps your hands in position right over the keys?
>
>No, but I have been known to use the 2+1 A-flat in fast passage work,
>which sounds just fine on my Buffet as long as the bridge key's in
>line
>and the pads are in order. I think this is a far better fingering than
>the
>2+2, which, as Pino says, "...should only be used in the most dire
>emergencies...", like when trilling between E and A-flat. (But how
>often
>does THAT happen?)
>
>Rob Teitelbaum
>Claremont McKenna College
>
>