Klarinet Archive - Posting 000657.txt from 1998/07

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sliver Keys AND Bottom RH Rings
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 08:31:52 -0400

I sus pect my previous rejoinder didn't get through - there's also a good
place to use it near the beginning of the Bax sonata (if I remember
correctly - I don't have it here), which has some very
awkward transitions in it elsewhere as well.
Muehlfeld probably had much less trouble, having a post-Mueller
instrument....
rjs

On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Frank Garcia wrote:

> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 06:56:34 +0600
> From: Frank Garcia <fgarcia@-----.edu>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Sliver Keys AND Bottom RH Rings
>
> I'm new into this topic, and I don't exactly know if this has been stated
> yet. But the fingering below, provided by Mr. Shilcock, is a most useful
> fingering for slurring large intervals to or from high E-flat. A perfect
> example of using this fingering is Brahms 1st sonata, 1st movement,
> measures 8 and 9. I play the C with the left hand (of course), followed by
> Mr. Shilcock's fingering for E-flat, followed by F sharp fingered like Mr.
> Shilcock's E-flat with the addition of the left index finger and lifting
> the pinky.
>
> Someone earlier mentioned removing this ring. I couldn't play this passage
> as smoothly as I would want to without that ring. I can't think of another
> fingering that this ring is needed for off the top of my head. But I think
> in this particular passage, this ring is a necessity.
> Frank
>
> >It helps with a useful (on some instruments) fingering for E flat 3 leger
> >lines up, i.e.:
> > s
> > t
> > o
> > x
> > x
> > o
> > o
> > x
> > E flat
> >Can anyone think of anything else it's useful for?
> >roger Shilcock
> >
> >On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Ed Maurey wrote:
> >
> >> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 20:36:26 -0300
> >> From: Ed Maurey <edsshop@-----.ca>
> >> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> >> To: klarinet@-----.org
> >> Subject: [kl] Sliver Keys AND Bottom RH Rings
> >>
> >> Some of us have been deeply and passionately involved with our sliver
> >> key discussion. Some of us [myself included] consider it useless and
> >> would prefer having clarinets without it. But, are we arguing about the
> >> truly most useless mechanical contrivance on our instruments? I
> >> contend that the bottom right hand ring has no real purpose in life, and
> >> being a devout minimalist, would like to be rid of it!
> >> The resulting tone hole could at tube exterior surface level and
> >> therefore be a smaller diameter. It would then be
> >> easier for little fingers to cover. It would appear much as the bottom
> >> left hand tone hole.
> >> Less is better!!
> >> Ed Maurey
> >>
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