Klarinet Archive - Posting 000206.txt from 1997/09

From: clarinat@-----.com (Nathaniel Johnson)
Subj: Re: Throat Ab and hand position
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 03:14:19 -0400

I have a friend who has had her Ab key substatially "built up" with cork,
so that the L index finger doesn't have to travel as far to operate it.
Takes some getting used to, she says, but it seems to me that it would be
well worth it. Whatever you choose to do, and however you choose to
operate the Ab key, I recommend the Jean-Jean "vade-mecum" book. It has
a special left had exercise (# 2 or 3, I think) that would probably help
you. The book cost me about $25 when I bought it four years ago, but
it's well worth it.

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

On Thu, 4 Sep 1997 08:55:37 -0400 jayager@-----.edu (Jeremy Alexander
Yager) writes:
>
>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
>