Klarinet Archive - Posting 001047.txt from 2000/10

From: MaisondeHadley@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Information on Eb Clarinet please
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 20:04:03 -0400

In a message dated 10/19/00 12:18:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time, mrste@-----.net
writes:

<< I am a freshmen in highschool, and may have the opportunity to perform
on an Eb clarinet for our Christmas music concerts. I naturally play Bb as
my main instrument and was wondering how hard the transition may be. To be
completely honest, I have no idea the differences between a Bb and Eb
clarinet except that the latter is much smaller and pitched Eb instead of
Bb. Any information would be welcome. >>

Last year as a sophmore I was handed sheet music and a professional LeBlanc
Eb clarinet. The main difficulties I encountered from switching from Bb to
Eb was-fingering the notes, as the keys were much smaller, it was ackward for
a little bit, and also it seemed to me the embouchere must be a little
tighter than the Bb (that or it just seemed it because of the difference in
sizes of the mouthpieces).

~Joseph

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