Klarinet Archive - Posting 000898.txt from 2001/01

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Boosey & Hawkes wood clarinet
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:25:43 -0500

<><> Ginger Calkins wrote:
However something else is out of whack as I can NOT play a "b" above the
break [i.e. all fingers down] without starting out on some other note
and working to it, either up or down. I'm assuming it is a quirk of the
horn.

If a competent technician says that your horn has many problems,
then it's probably true, but.....

Some of the problems that you mentioned in your previous post,
especially the "I need to sneak up on this note" comment that I have
quoted above, are also symptoms of not maintaining constant embouchure
or breath support as you approach a note that is difficult to finger.
Playing with a 'full' tone in the lower register and a 'thin' sound in
the upper register(s) is another example of performance difficulty
rather than equipment difficulty.

Have you considered renting a clarinet for a month (probably $30 or
so) and then seeing how many of these problems persist on an instrument
that is in good repair? Of course, if you rent it during the wedding,
you will be solving two problems at once.

For that matter, if the repair person can play clarinet a bit
(competent repair people need to play the instruments they work on in
order to test its performance), is he or she unable to play a B on your
instrument?

Cheers,
Bill

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