Klarinet Archive - Posting 000927.txt from 2000/01

From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Ginastera high d
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:32:47 -0500

It was often called "the octave key" when I was starting to play (ca 1948).
Of course, that doesn't make it right.

And calling it the "twelfth key" would lead folks to ask about the other
eleven keys.

At 08:16 PM 01/27/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>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>
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 11:46 AM
>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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