Klarinet Archive - Posting 000727.txt from 1997/10

From: Gary_VanCott@-----.com
Subj: Re: [Fwd: Re: Throat tones]
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:28:14 -0400

Gary VanCott=NHIN
10/16/97 07:28 PM
I believe the Rossi clarinet has a Bb mechanism similar to a bass clarinet,
to solve this problem.

Gary
Las Vegas, NV

bhausman @-----.com on 10/16/97 04:28:52 PM

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cc: (bcc: Gary VanCott/NHIN)
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Throat tones]

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? :-)

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