Klarinet Archive - Posting 000837.txt from 2000/10

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] D/G transition
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 01:44:17 -0400

--- William Wright <Bilwright@-----.net> wrote:

> No, I do mean R1 -- which gives F all by itself, but gives G if C#
> is down also.

Ah, no wonder the G sounds stuffier with this alternate fingering.

> So I'm waiting to hear if someone tells me: "You *should* be able to do
> it, Bill, so keep working on it"; or perhaps someone will tell me: "This
> is a standard problem, Bill, and yes, you need a resonant fingering be-
> cause D-to-G opens up too many holes at once."

Well, yes, you *should* be able to do it, but I'm not yet willing to attribute
the abnormal result to something that you are (or are not) doing with your body.
I wonder what would happen if you plugged your mouthpiece into somebody else's
instrument and tried it again. There is no idiosyncracy associated with a leap
from D to G (not in my experience, anyway), and it's not a particularly difficult
or unusual interval, or range, on the instrument. Even jr. high school students
play this interval just fine without a dramatic change in tone. I still lean
toward a theory that there's something "up" with your instrument. If not, then
your other statement applies: just keep working on it -- in all likelihood, this
particular quirk will resolve itself as you continue to develop as a player.

> I will say that they (the clarion notes) sound good to me, whereas my
> G-above-the-staff sounds overloaded with high partials.

Well, all the speculation in the world isn't going to do much good.
What does your private teacher tell you when you demonstrate it for
her?

> I don't know.... maybe everything will sound different to me tomorrow.

Now that's genuinely humorous, because it is so often true! It's amazing
how dramatically one's sound and facility can change, literally overnight.
"What a difference a day makes....24...little hours...." :-).

-- Neil

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