Klarinet Archive - Posting 000330.txt from 2001/04

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Felines Favored fingering
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 09:06:22 -0400

At 08:55 AM 04/16/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I do not agree. I find the side bflat an INFERIOR sounding fingering and
>use it only for trills. Proper voicing of the throad register makes the
>side bflat unnecessary. Listen to Robert Marcellus, he never used the
>throat bflat.
>
>The technical hangups caused by overuse of the side bflat are not worth
>the trouble. My advice is to learn to voice the 'real' fingering.
>
>David Hattner, NYC

Careful David! I argued the same information a couple of years ago and was
stomped into the circuitry for posting it!

LOL

RG

Roger Garrett
Clarinet Professor
Director, Symphonic Winds
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
Phone: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3121

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes
another's."
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

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