Klarinet Archive - Posting 000574.txt from 1999/04

From: Jack Kissinger <kissingerjn@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: [kl] two totally unrelated questions
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:20 -0400

ebray wrote:

> My issue is with the fingers--going from a fairly open fingering
> to a fairly closed one--a la clarion C to (is it altissimo?) c
> sharp? My embouchure can a bend a pitch pretty far in either
> direction and it is pretty controlled--just can't seem to make
> a really good gliss say from the throat B flat to the (clarion?)
> B natural? How would one make the fingers not make a bump?

Instead of crossing the break from C (RT ooo ooo) to C# (RT oxx oxx) try
sliding up to C#
(RT G# ooo ooo) before you cross the break to C# (RT oxx oxx) then go on up.
It may help a little. For me however, the control mostly feels like it comes
from the throat rather than the fingers. There is a slow gliss in the Artie
Shaw concerto from g2 to g3 (where middle c is c1) that Shaw executes
flawlessly on his recording, so it can be done. For some odd reason,
however, Jon Bruce Yeh didn't get it completely seamlessly on his recording
-- odd, considering his ability and the option to do retakes.

Best regards,
Jack Kissinger
St. Louis

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