Klarinet Archive - Posting 000713.txt from 2001/10

From: lubydjackson@-----. Jackson)
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: "successful faking"
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 02:10:56 -0400

I've been reading the thread about faking and I would like to ask is this
the same as making one's tone sound big and fat purposely when ordinarily
one's tone is shrill and thin?
----- Original Message -----
From: <fred.sheim@-----.net>
Subject: RE: [kl] Re: "successful faking"

> 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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