Klarinet Archive - Posting 000622.txt from 2000/02

From: klar-ANN-ette H Satterfield <klarann@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: Signature&Series10 NOW Bb
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:10:39 -0500

Wayne,

Bb is the worst note on most clarinets--any maker, any quality. Players
who don't use resonance fingering for any other throat tone do use one
for Bb. Finding the best Bb resonance takes experimentation with a tuner.

Play regular (thin, dull) Bb, add other keys until the note sounds more
tonal and in tune.
Likely possibilites include: R&Akey 23 / 23Eb or R&Akey 3 / 1 3 .

{This may be obvious) Then make that improved fingering THE fingering
for that note. Slow passages first (where most needed) and gradually
into most situations, reserving the thumb and Akey fingering as a 'trill'
or fast arpeggio solution only.

I once had a clarinet with a good Bb--and the rest of the instrument was
a untuned nightmare.

Ann Satterfield
PCC instrumental assistant.

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:04:03 +0800 chi chan <lokshing@-----.com>
writes:
>Dear Fernando,
>
>I have been played series 10 both B flat and A for so many years. I
>never got a chance to try the Signature. In the local store here they
>won't let you try it unless you buy it. So I just can't compare the
>difference. Anyway, we
>all know that The middle B flat note of series 10 are sounds thinner,
>so as to many other kinds of clarinet, is the B flat note sounds
>better in the new Signature? When I was in college (48 years ago) I
>know a guy who had a
>clarinet which I forgot the brand of it, its B flat note sounds much
>better. He told me the clarinet was especially built for that note,
>there is a particular name of that system, unfortunately I do not
>recall the name. Do you
>know anything about it? Let me go back to the subject, I also want to
>know how much would it cost for the Signature. Thank you.
>
>Best Regards.
>
>Sincrely,
>
>Wayne

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