Klarinet Archive - Posting 000796.txt from 2000/02

From: "Michael Lawrence" <belgarath10@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Rhythm training, was: daily playing
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 00:25:36 -0500

I don't really know what you are asking, but I have little to do right now,
so I will attempt to give you and answer. If you are saying that the
clarinet as a whole has a Bb and no Eb... that makes no sense, of course
there is an Eb... but you seem to have range up into the altissimo, and must
know all of the keys below that, so your question must deal with something
else. Are you saying that the Bb scale has a Bb and no Eb? 'Cause it
does... Bb, C, D, Eb, F, G, A, Bb... or do you think that the transposed key
(C) has a Bb... 'Cause it doesn't... C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C. The only other
thing I can think of that you are suggesting is that the clarinet doesn't
have an altissimo Eb... which it does:) fingering:

R
T o
x
x

x
o
(that little key inbetween these two notes.. used for chromatic fingering of
clarion F# and chalameau (sp?) B)
o
(Clarion Eb/Chalameau Ab key)

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From: "Bryan Cholfin" <cranked@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Rhythm training, was: daily playing
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 23:56:52 -0500

Thanks for the advice. It does seem to have helped. Still having a little
difficulty with volume control, but already finding that I can produce the
higher notes more reliably with much less physical exertion. I even got to a
high E. It wasn't very good, but it was definitely an E.

Okay, here's another dumb question, but it's kind of driving me buggy that I
can't figure it out. Probably because my knowledge of scales is still pretty
rudimentary. If the natural scale of the clarinet is B-flat, and indeed we
find that it plays B-flat between the C and the A, shouldn't there then be
an E-flat between the D and the F? Instead it plays E. Am I missing
something or is the horn just perverse?

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>From: "Jay Webler" <webler@-----.net>

> Almost always there is a marked improvement in the intonation of the
> clarion range when they grasp this concept.
>

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