Klarinet Archive - Posting 000327.txt from 1998/08

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Firebird Variation (G#-A "trill")
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:10:44 -0400

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From: Kevin Fay (LCA) <kevinfay@-----.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 11, 1998 11:22 AM
Subject: RE: [kl] Firebird Variation (G#-A "trill")

>I don't know how "common" this is--but I know it's not my fastest trill
(and
>I'm left-handed).
>
>One of the common auxiliary mechanisms purchased for clarinets is the
>articulated G# key. It's supposed to give a better tone because of a
larger
>and better placed tone hole--although I'm not real comfy with a hole in the
>tenon. It also allows you to trill these notes with your right forefinger.
>
Articulated G#, I think (I don't own one), is for trills and tremolos
between right-hand notes (E, F, F# mostly) and G#, which are normally very
difficult to do smoothly. It allows you to keep the G#(/C#) key down while
playing the right-hand notes, so an F#-G# trill is done by moving the rh
ring finger only - the G# key remains down throughout. It's a standard
feature on saxes. The G#-A trill is a little awkward, but what makes it
worse in the Weber Concertino are the grace notes customarily following the
trill (Nachschlag), which in this case are F#-G#. I've heard more than one
recording of the Concertino in which the clarinetist leaves the G# trill out
(they all seem to do the F# trill that precedes it).

Karl Krelove

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