Klarinet Archive - Posting 000626.txt from 2001/10

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: "successful faking"
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:57:37 -0400

At 09:50 AM 10/19/2001 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 18:45:33 -0400, Fred Sheim wrote:
> >
> >Why would you want to use alternate fingerings here? The real fingerings
> >are simple and comfortable even at high speed.
>
>In all seriousness, I would answer "why not"? The composer did not write
>"play
>high D here with thumb, register, 2 and 3 in the left hand, 1 and Eb key
>in the
>right hand." All he wrote is a high D. I am not violating any kind of
>contract with the composer, either express or implied, by playing an
>alternate
>fingering if it is more comfortable, as long as it produces the correct
>result.
>
>I just don't understand the basis of your rather strong objections, Fred.

Surely you understand that the composer was looking for just the specific
tonal quality of that particular fingering for the high D, which he
recalled from his studies in college was exactly 5 cents flat on an R-13
with a Morgan mouthpiece and Vandoren V-12 4. In fact, the whole reason he
wrote the piece was as a prelude to the occurrence of that exact sound. If
you use a different fingering, instrument, mouthpiece, or reed, the whole
effect is absolutely RUINED! ;-)

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
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Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

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