Klarinet Archive - Posting 000121.txt from 1998/06

From: Grant Green <gdgreen@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Higher notes on the Contrabass?
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 18:53:26 -0400

At 02:39 PM 6/3/98 -0600, you wrote:
>On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Grant Green wrote:
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>> It *is* possible to play the upper registers of the contra: I find myself
>> playing up to D or E above the staff fairly often (mainly when reading off
>> bass or Eb contra parts, and transposing to get the pitch indicated).
>
>Grant, I find greater ease in this if you use the R3 key as well
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Yep, that's what I've been doing, since the Leblanc lacks a LH1 pinhole
vent. Finger altissimo notes with LH1 and RH3 closed, and out it comes...
Haven't had occassion to play all the way up to double high C. Yet....

Grant

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