Klarinet Archive - Posting 000335.txt from 2002/02

From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bass clarinet problems
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:28:28 -0500

At 03:20 PM 2/18/02 -0600, you wrote:

>On my BC I achieved more hook by building up the thumbrest with cork.
>It's probably about 1/4 inch thick on the distal end, tapering down to nothing
>at the clarinet body so it fits fairly snugly around the back of my
>thumb. You also need a good non-skid end on the peg. This works
>well most of the time, but I was reading a bassoon sonata (I forget
>whose) the other day that had a slur from the lowest concert Bb
>(which requires my thumb elsewhere) up 3 octaves to the thumb-only
>note!
Good suggestion. I won't have the "occupied thumb" problem, since the
instrument is only a low-Eb type (worse luck).

George

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