Klarinet Archive - Posting 001421.txt from 1998/05

From: fsheim@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Please help me / Chalumeau / clarion etc
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 08:42:49 -0400

At 07:10 AM 5/29/98, you wrote:
>Lam wrote:
>
<snip>

Klose' said high G was the
>reasonable limit of the instrument, and advised against going higher. To
>judge by some of the posts here on the Klarinet list, there are a few
>students out there, and possibly even some professionals, who spend time
>trying to produce the altissimo notes, probably to impress other
>clarinetists. Their time would be better spent blowing long tones and
>playing tech exercises, scales and arpeggios.
>
>Lee Hickling <hickling@-----.net>
>

So how would you play the Spohr concertos, which ascend to high A, or even
the Weber concerto, which ascends to high Bb?

Fred (fsheim@-----.com)

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