Klarinet Archive - Posting 001086.txt from 2000/12

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Chalumeau F# chromatic fingering
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 19:28:23 -0500

I use the 1st LH finger. I teach it to my pupils, and no one slips up with
it. The rule is <always stay on the same hand if you can>. If you try to use
the TH and the 2 side keys, there will always be the hazard, however small,
of <when> to time the exact moment to <down> the side keys approaching that
F#, and then releasing them to move back to your LH continuation.
Yes - - -this way is possible, and is necessary sometimes, but I think you
will find after slow and even practice, leaving that chromatic movement on
<one> hand is perfectly fluent.
Best,
Tony W.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Yungkurth" <clarinet@-----.net>
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?

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