Klarinet Archive - Posting 001084.txt from 2000/12

From: Ed Wojtowicz <ewoj@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Chalumeau F# chromatic fingering
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 19:28:21 -0500

I think that this concept of fingering is from traditional French teaching.
(possible passed on to many through Bonade) When I studied with Marcellus
he told me exactly the same thing- that the side keys were only for trills.
He was so attuned the difference in timbre that I observed him in a master
class stopping a student to correct the fingering. Keep in mind that
Marcellus was blind at the time!

Ed

> From: "Don Yungkurth" <clarinet@-----.net>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:33:12 -0500
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Subject: [kl] Chalumeau F# chromatic fingering
>
> I was present recently at a lecture/demonstration by Anthony Gigliotti. He
> said that the proper fingering for F# in the Chalumeau register in a
> chromatic run is left hand index finger. When specifically asked about using
> the left thumb plus the first two side keys for the right hand index finger,
> he said not to use that fingering in a chromatic and that, "They are trill
> keys".
>
> Someone in the audience asked, "but how fast can you do that?" He
> demonstrated that he could do a C to C chromatic over the break rapidly and
> smoothly using "his" fingering for F# (of course!).
>
> I've checked a number of methods and they all seem to say to use the side F#
> in a chromatic, as I learned years ago in Part I of the Langenus method.
>
> Any comments? Is this a common view?
>
> Don Yungkurth (clarinet@-----.net)

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