Klarinet Archive - Posting 001334.txt from 1998/10

From: CEField@-----.com
Subj: Re: Re: [kl] Abe Galper's Register Vent & Key
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 07:19:25 -0500

In a message dated 10/30/98 12:55:00 AM, Gary wrote:

<<This key improves the middle B natural as well as the Bb? It has always
been the B naturals that drove me crazy.>>

Being able to play a decent (clear and open) pinch Bb is only the frosting on
the cake. Generating tones at the break is much more fluid.

I used to avoid playing some fake book songs or even music that was actually
arranged for clarinet because the person who arranged the music put in series
of third line B-naturals. I am thinking right now of the song "Wishing You
Were Somehow Here Again" from Phantom of the Opera. The melody line in the
arrangement I have begins with 5 B-naturals. There's no place to hide because
you've got the melody and you try to play this as if you were "singing" it.
Yeah, right.

I have always found on my Buffet R13 that there is a nanosecond hesitation at
that point in the clarinet's range. I'm not sure listeners hear it but it
drives me nuts. I probably cramp up, which only makes matters worse...or I
avoid playing the music altogether, which is silly.

After installing Abe's vent, I tore through music like this that I had avoided
in the past. I couldn't believe the difference.

Cindy

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