Klarinet Archive - Posting 000551.txt from 2001/06

From: "Stephen White" <shwhite2@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Rossi vs R13
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 11:10:52 -0400

I play an older R13 (circa 1955) and have noticed that I don't always need
the Eb key for high D as well as other oddities - like I play my throat 'A'
with nearly every hole closed save the first finger of the left hand to get
it *in the ball park* of being in tune. Since I cannot afford to purchase
another instrument at this time, it will just have to do. I agree that the
variations are not necessarily R13 versus other clarinets, I have always
approached them as other possibilities for intonation improvement.

.02 - inserted, have at it.

Steve White

-----Original Message-----
From: Dee D. Hays [mailto:deehays@-----.net]
Subject: Re: [kl] Rossi vs R13

----- Original Message -----
From: <Tski1128@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Rossi vs R13

> 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.

Dee Hays
Michigan.

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