Klarinet Archive - Posting 000542.txt from 2001/06

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Rossi vs R13
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 03:45:06 -0400

> > Having played the Rossi clarinet for over a yr. now I feel relatively
> > qualified to make a few comments on it. It is not an R-13, many of the
> > fingerings that we call "normal" are really R-13 fingerings, I don't use
>the
> > sliver key for high f, or the eb key on the high D
>
>Not so. This variation in fingerings is shown in the original fingering
>chart for the complete Klose method, which was originally published in the
>1800s, long before there ever was an R-13. So they can hardly be "R-13"
>fingerings. The chart states that some instruments will need the Eb key for
>notes like high D and others will not.

I appreciate Dee having said this. I had already incurred the wrath of one
Rossi user/artist - and I wasn't about to incur the wrath of another - who
posted a reasonable essay about his experiences.

Best wishes,
Roger Garrett

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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