Klarinet Archive - Posting 000045.txt from 1997/05

From: Lord Rob <rteitelbaum@-----.EDU>
Subj: RE: 1+1 fingering
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 18:17:01 -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 please explain? Thanx,

>Nathaniel Johnson

Yeah, it's just thumb/register, 1 and 2 on left hand and index (1) on the
right. I don't know why Pino doesn't include this in his book, but it's
always worked well for me. Now that I think about it, though, you're
entirely correct in that the bridge key doesn't enter into it. Stupid me.
Incidentally, I don't find that this works particularly well on my clarinet
in the lower register (D-flat), only in the clarion. There it's especially handy for
things like the A-flat to B-flat trill (using 1+1 B-flat) that occurs, for example,
in the Finzi Concerto 2nd movement. You reduce the motion to one finger.
I also find it helpful for one of the triple grace note embellishments in the first
movement of the Beethoven Op. 11 trio. Just a couple examples of where the
fingering might be helpful.

Rob Teitelbaum
Claremont McKenna College