Klarinet Archive - Posting 000349.txt from 1998/08

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Firebird Variation (G#-A "trill")
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 06:37:19 -0400

Which fingerings are you using? It's easier (on a B flat, anyway) to use
the first 2 fingers of the RH than to try to coordinate a third finger on
a bare hole with a little finger on a key. For some reason, the
cross-fingered G# seems a much worse note on the A, I believe that
improvement all round of this fingering is one of the features of the
Schmidt Reform-Boehm instruments.
Roger Shilcock

On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, From Me Man wrote:

> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:35:52 -0400
> From: From Me Man <clarinetken@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Firebird Variation (G#-A "trill")
>
> Hello everyone...
>
> I was mind boggled today while at work and want an answer to one
> question:
>
> Is it common for the "trill" between the G# and A just above the staff to
> be awkward (i.e. as in the Firebird opening to the variation (not exactly
> a trill)...and the trill in the slow opening of the Weber Concertino)?
>
> Just wondering...cuz my arm seems to tense up and prevents me from
> playing it "fast enough."
>
> I hope somebody is familiar with my problem ;)
>
> (Words of encouragement are preferred ;)
>
> !CIAO!
>
> Kenneth Chin
> DePaul University
> 1997-98 Principal Clarinet
> New York Youth Symphony
>
>
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