Klarinet Archive - Posting 000228.txt from 1997/05

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Step 2 of n (Don Christensen)
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 08:33:02 -0400

If Don is correct, there is some heavy duty conflicting information
that I'm getting on the matter; i.e., that the successive raising
of the fingers, one at a time, and in the natural sequence, does
not produce an F major scale on the period clarinet. The
specific point Don makes is that the transition from low A to
low B-flat is not accomplished by raising the next successive
finger (the middle finger) but is instead the index finger.

In effect he suggests that raising the fingers in successive order
produces no scale at all. (I believe that he also says the
same thing about the upper register with the notes e to f being
played the same way they were executed in the lower register).

Well, it is clear I am at a disadvantage having no experience with
a period clarinet and only ask if others on the list who have
experience with these instruments concur with Don's assessment.

At a minimum the word "successive" is coming under fire.

Comments from the cognoscenti??

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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