Klarinet Archive - Posting 000118.txt from 1997/05

From: fersilv@-----.net
Subj: Re:
Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 11:33:26 -0400

That articulated G# key works when you play any note on right hand,
even you are with your finger on G#key, the articulation make the G#key
close down. Is like the same note on the saxophone.

Cheers

Fernando Silveira
Principal Clarinet - National Symphony - Brazil
Chamber Music Professor - Rio de Janeiro Federal University

At 22:24 03/05/97 EDT, you wrote:
>What exactly is the "articulated" G# key?
>
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>Kenneth Chin
>New York Youth Symphony
>Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division
>www.geocities.com/Vienna/2637/index.html (*****NEW*****)
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>
>On Fri, 2 May 1997 20:50:12 -0500 (CDT) ghopkins@-----.net (Gary Hopkins)
>writes:
>>I'm curious. How many of you clarinet playing cyber-dudes and dudettes
>>play
>>clarinets with extra keys. I had to rebuild the left hand Eb/Ab
>>mechanism
>>on a symphony player's Buffet last week, and I started thinking about
>>the
>>other insturments I've worked on with extra keys. About 15 years ago I
>>worked on a Leblanc LL that had a double octave key on it. It was the
>>first
>>soprano clarinet I have seen with one of those. Occasionally, I see a
>>soprano with the articualted G# key.
>>
>>Gary Hopkins
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