Klarinet Archive - Posting 000746.txt from 1998/07

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] The slur in Brahms first Sonata - now F#/C#..
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:40:56 -0400

I use both these, but the C# (or D flat) has an inferior sound to the
"standard" cross fingering on all my instruments.
There is another odd problem, i.e., that the holes can accumulate water
unnoticed in cold, humid conditions, which only gives itself away when
the note is played - the second from the bottom trill key is rarely used
otherwise (is it??).
rjs

On Tu

e, 21 Jul 1998, Lee Hickling wrote:

> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 12:27:02
> From: Lee Hickling <hickling@-----.Net>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] The slur in Brahms first Sonate
>
> I don't have a score at home, so I can't play the passage in question to
> see what fingerings would work best for me, But for slurring C3 to Eb3, one
> could try using the top two in the rank of four RH index finger keys,
> depressed simultaneously with the first knuckle of the right index finger.
> I don't know whether that would help in this passage because it depends on
> what comes after the Eb.
>
> All the recent discussion of which fingering of Bb is "normal", and so on,
> has not usually dealt with that sort of consideration. Any fingering may be
> excellent, or terrible, depending on what is happening before and after the
> note in question, which clarinet you are playing, and (especially when the
> note is a leading tone) sometimes also on what key one is in.
>
> The lower two LH keys, by the way, pressed together with the register key
> open and the thumb hole stopped, give an excellent Db3, and in the lower
> register, with the thumb hole stopped, produce an F# that eliminates the
> dreaded finger-flip too many of us rely on, which works very well for
> playing G-F#-F in slow legato passages..
>
> Those four keys are one of the great unexploited areas in advanced
> techique, and not all the fingerings for which they are occasionally useful
> are on standard fingering charts. Clarinets, though, vary in the quality
> and intonation of the notes that result, and what works on one may be
> useless on another.
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> I wish there were a standard nomenclature for the keys of a Boehm clarinet.
> Every fingering chart seems to be different from all the others.
>
> Lee Hickling <hickling@-----.net>
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