Klarinet Archive - Posting 001349.txt from 1998/10

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: Re: [kl] Abe Galper's Register Vent & Key
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:03:15 -0500

Someone *else* has trouble with slow response on middle bs? I thought it
was just me!!!
Roger Shilcock

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998 CEField@-----.com wrote:

> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 07:19:25 EST
> From: CEField@-----.com
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: Re: [kl] Abe Galper's Register Vent & Key
>
>
> 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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