Klarinet Archive - Posting 000726.txt from 1997/10

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [Fwd: Re: Throat tones]
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:05:27 -0400

Using "color fingerings", I have had no trouble at all voicing the throat
Bb in to centered pitch...on the below instruments. The trill key
fingering is not an alternate in the sense that left hand f# is an
alternate to right hand f#......it is used for trills. I have no idea
what the manufacturers think......so my comment does not mean that....it
simply means that I find the trill Bb to be low it pitch and avoid using
it - especially on sustained notes.

Roger Garrett

On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Bill Hausmann wrote:

> At 12:17 PM 10/16/97 -0500, Roger Garrett wrote:
> >
> >As stated previously, this is not an easy fingering to get to, certainly
> >not chromatically. I avoid the fingering because on the horns
> >currently being built by Yamaha, Leblanc, Selmer, and Buffet (some
> >exceptions always), the fingering is flat in pitch.
> >
> Does this mean the manufacturers think their throat Bb's are so good now we
> don't NEED the alternate fingering? :-)
>
>
>
> Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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>
> If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.
>