Klarinet Archive - Posting 000555.txt from 2001/10

From: AlishaClarinet@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] "successful faking"
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:21:35 -0400

In a message dated Wed, 17 Oct 2001 6:24:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net> writes:

> Similarly, the opening of Daphnis & Chloe`s forty nine 32nd`s is very
> difficult, (1st clarinet) but made perfect by the addition of left hand
> pinky permanently placed on left hand Db (clarinet register). It makes
> G,F,and Eb quite poor notes, but at speed no one notices. It is a 'fake'
> fingering, not an alternate one.

Has anyone performed D&S using the "coin trick" by putting a nickel under the B to hold down the C# key? Talk about faking! I learned this passage by woodshedding it as Tony describes, but I admit this trick keeps your left pinky from aching.

Alisha

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