Klarinet Archive - Posting 000006.txt from 1999/03

From: Floyd Williams <f.williams@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] BAERMANN FINGERING FOR C ABOVE THE STAFF
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 14:39:35 -0500

Avrahm means to put the 3 fingers of the right hand down while playing
the usual fingering for c''' just above the staff.

avrahm galper wrote:
>
> A Baermann fingering for C above the staff
>
> A while back there was a question about the Bettoney version of the
> Baermann. This was quite a few months ago.
> At that time I mentioned that the Bettoney edition had the translation
> of the Baermann first book with it's description of the fingerings for
> the Baermann system.
> At that time I mentioned a fingering for C above the staff that could be
> used on the Boehm system.
>
> Since then I have adopted this fingering and have my pupils play it.
> It comes in handy in certain leaps, like D on the fourth line to high C.
>
> Here is the fingering:
>
> Thumb closed and speaker open
>
> X
> X
> X
> --
> O
> O
> O
>
> This gives a very secure C and useful in many passages. One of them
> notably when going from high D to one to tone below, high C. The slur
> is fabulous. In a slow passage, a Godsend.
> Can be used in the slow solo in the Rachmaninoff second Symphony.
> There are many other numerous passages. One should try it and see
> whether it works. So far it has worked on all the R13s that I have seen
> since.
>
> Good luck with this fingering, if you like it. By the way in the
> transition from high D to C, the fingers have to be moved very
> lightly. No banging.
>
> --
> Avrahm Galper
> TONE TECHNIQUE AND STACCATO
> THE UPBEAT BAERMANN MELODIC SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS
> http://www.sneezy.org/avrahm_galper/index.html
>
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Floyd Williams
Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University

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