Klarinet Archive - Posting 000189.txt from 1997/09

From: "Andrew Scholberg" <ascholbe@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Throat Ab and hand position
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 00:14:46 -0400

Fingering the throat A flat: to move the wrist or not to move the wrist...

Buffet solved that problem in 1920 when it came out with a modified Boehm
clarinet with trill keys for the throat A flat and A natural operated by
the second finger of the *right* hand. But this design never took off.
Should we petition Buffet to resurrect this design?

Andy Scholberg
ascholbe@-----.com

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> From: Jeremy Alexander Yager <jayager@-----.edu>
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Throat Ab and hand position
> Date: Thursday, September 04, 1997 7:55 AM
>
>
> HEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Mailing list!
>
> I have a question.
> Are you sopposed to be able to hit the throat Ab key without moving your
wrist?
> I cannot seem to be able to, and it kills me in fast passages (like in Ab
> arpeggios for example!) I play with my top hand (as looking from the
front)
> angled with the knuckles higher than the fingertips. Has anyone else had
this
> problem? and solved it? (this one DURN exercise keeps kicking my butt
because
> the wrist movement puts me out of position!)
>
> <off>
> Also I will now take this opportunity to grin for NCSU football for a
fine
> example of never ever ever giving up in a incredible win over Syracuse.
> GO STATE!
> </off>
>
> --Jeremy
>
> Jeremy A. "Galileo" Yager - musician, archer, poet & future engineer
> NC State University : Wolfpack Archery! : NC State Marching Band
> "It would take a great fool not to see that the complexity of the
Universe
> can indeed suggest a unity of design derived from an intelligence."
> --Andrew S. Damick