Klarinet Archive - Posting 000696.txt from 2001/10

From: fred.sheim@-----.net
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: "successful faking"
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 17:48:12 -0400

At 09:50 AM 10/19/01 -0700, you 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.
>
>--
>- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

I don't know what I said to imply that my objections were "strong", but I
believe that if the regular fingerings can be used, use them. Anyway, the
overblown G on my clarinet is a terrible note, and the regular d fingering
in this context is simple for me even at mm@-----.

Fred

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