Klarinet Archive - Posting 000434.txt from 1998/03

From: pharmacy <pharmacy@-----.com>
Subj: Twydd's
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 21:45:55 -0500

Alec Hill wrote:

> Cynthia,
>
> There exists a little book generally available in the UK entitled "303
> Clarinet Fingerings and 276 Trills" which might be useful to you. It
> contains 11 fingerings for a''' plus 7 trill fingerings. (For g#''' there
> are 25 different fingerings!) For the really adventurous, fingerings are
> available up to g'''',
>
> I don't know if this has travelled to Norway yet, but if not it can be
> obtained direct from the author, Alan Sim, price 4.95 in pounds sterling,
> which includes postage abroad.
>
> His address is:
> Twydds Music,
> Twydds Cottage,
> Duck End,
> Stebbing,
> Essex CM6 3RY,
> U.K.
> Telephone: 01371 856506 (from within UK)
> ISBN 0 9516702 0 4
>
> Hope that will prove useful. Don't ask how to pronounce 'Twydds'. I would
> guess it's Welsh - a language with which I am slightly less familiar than
> Albanian.
>
> Alec Hill

I wrote to Mr. Sim, author of the book, and received the book and a delightful
letter from him. It seems that Twydds (in Welsh) is pronounced
"TOO-WITHS".Carol

   
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