Klarinet Archive - Posting 000799.txt from 1998/07

From: "Don Yungkurth" <clarinet@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Trill Fingerings (was a bunch of other stuff)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 00:02:45 -0400

George Kidder wrote:

>But for the trill I meant to refer to, I use the "sliver key" fingering
for the Bb and open the bottom
>two side keys for the C. It is possible (since the fingers are all on one
>hand) to trill by raising and lowering all three LH fingers, but I, at
>least, can't keep it even that way. But without the "sliver key" how do
>you do it?

Without the sliver key, you can play the Bb using the RH 1st side key and
trill to C with the LH index and middle fingers. Moving two fingers
instead of three seems to make it "manageable" for me. This seems to work
as well as your suggestion on my R13s.

Kevin Bowman wrote:

>And - I haven't tried this yet, but might this F# fingering

(thumb and first two RH index finger side keys)

>also work for F#-G# trill buy playing the F# then trilling
>the throat G# key? This trill would be difficult to do with
>first finger F#. Is there a better trill for F#-G#?

This works quite well for F#-G#. Another possibility is to play the F#
using the LH middle finger instead of the index finger and trilling to G#
with the index finger. These are both good trills and allow some choice
based on what precedes and follows the trill.

Don Yungkurth (clarinet@-----.net)

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