Klarinet Archive - Posting 000614.txt from 1998/05

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] C Clarinets, and mixups
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 14:32:06 -0400

On Tue, 12 May 1998, Shouryu Nohe wrote:

> On Tue, 12 May 1998, Edwin V. Lacy wrote:
> > When playing the baritone saxophone without a neckstrap, how do you play
> > open C#? That would be a sight to behold.
>
> Well, there are several tricks. It all depends on where the C# is. If
> it's in a fast passage, opening both hands for the duration of a
> sixteenth is piece of cake; my thumb and mouth can handle it for a whole
> third of a second. ^_^ If it's for a pretty long duration, I hook my
> right index finger around the F# key and with my left, I stretch over
> the keys and grab onto the rods.

....I think I'm having a psychic experience.....there is a word which
keeps occuring to me, over and over, incessantly......why?....why?....
Why?.....Why?.....WHY?.......WHY?!!

I mean, to go through all these contortions, which can't be very good for
your technique or your sound, just to avoid using a neckstrap? I don't
get it.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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