Klarinet Archive - Posting 000913.txt from 2000/01

From: "Ed & Carol Maurey" <edsshop@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Ginastera high d
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 22:51:19 -0500

Astounding! I've played for 45 years, and I've never heard the register or
speaker key called an octave key. It really sounds dumb. Perhaps, calling
it a twelfth key would do.

Ed Maurey
----- Original Message -----
From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Ginastera high d

> Despite the misnomer, use of the term 'octave key' is probably
> more prevalent ~ even among clarinetists in the know ~ than
> 'register key.' I guess you learned the correct terminology
> from the start and developed the habit of using it. The rest
> of us learned 'octave key' first and it stuck. This doesn't
> mean we're unaware of the functional characteristics of clar-
> inet acoustics. And I've never heard the key referred to as
> a 'Bb' key.
>
> -- Neil
>
> --- Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.com> wrote:
>
> > On the fingering below that you suggested trying, don't you mean 12T?
Since
> > the clarinet doesn't over blow an octave, and many refer to this key as
the
> > register/Bb key, why do you call it 8?
>
> > > Harri & Bridget Allaire-M?ki wrote:
>
> > > 8T oxx c# oxo Ab
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