Klarinet Archive - Posting 000994.txt from 2000/12

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] B natural/F# [was better high Ebs]
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:32:06 -0500

Well - - - -I would say O.K. <if> the sliver key clarion F# after re-tuning
is O.K. And <if> the RH 2nd finger low B after re-tuning is also O.K. It`s a
<big> "it depends on" isn`t it? If the clarinet is properly tuned in the
first place, (12ths etc), then there is certainly no need to remember which
fingering to use; modern instruments preferable of course, and again a <big>
maybe for older instru. This book sounds to me as though it could have come
off some extremely obscure and dusty shelves, in a backwater library
somewhere in the Wild West. Did they <have> libraries and clarinets in those
pioneering days? (I wonder who took the first clarinet over to the New
World?) All in all, I`d advise against it, most definitely. But if you`ve
got the "readies" and the workshop, and a disposable instrument, and you`re
a clarinet scientist George, then go ahead and invent something we`re all
searching for.
Best,
Tony W.

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Kidder" <gkidder@-----.org>
Subject: Re: [kl] B natural/F# [was better high Ebs]

> I remember reading somewhere (library book, so I can't look it up quickly)
> that some performers had the sliver-key fingering tuned correctly for the
B
> natural and the "RH second finger" fingering tuned for the clarion F#, so
> that they always had one fingering which was correct. How common this is
> (or was) I have no idea. Trying to remember to use the right one must
have
> been a problem.

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