Klarinet Archive - Posting 000112.txt from 2001/04

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] fingering options for beginners with small hands
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 22:54:40 -0400

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From: "Eric Mumpower" <nocturne@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] fingering options for beginners with small hands

> > Clarinets are reasonably primitive - we don't even have
> > all the keys we need, and can't afford to neglect any that we have.
>

I would tend to disagree that clarinets are reasonably primitive. They are
at the point where additional keys are a point of diminishing return and
partially offset by some corresponding disadvantages in some cases.
Afterall the articulated C#/G# is not universally made on all horns. Why?
Simply that some people do not want to give up the "long F" in the altissimo
or that they don't find it used often enough to demand it or select the
horns that have it or they believe (rightly or wrongly) that it is just one
more thing to go wrong or that it weakens the joint. In Rendall's "The
Clarinet" he has a discussion about the increasing number of keys and why
both Boehm and Oehler systems have stopped adding them.

Dee Hays
Michigan

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