Klarinet Archive - Posting 000084.txt from 2002/04

From: "Jim Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: Another type of slide
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 18:28:00 -0500

Yes. My Selmers have the articulated C#/G# on the right side. I wanted it
particularly because I have never been able to trill evenly with the left
little finger. (I also have the left Eb/Ab key.) I got all of the extra
keys except the long Eb/Bb key -- and sometimes wish I had just gotten the
full Boehm system.

Jim Hobby

>From: "James Lytthans" <lytthans@-----.net>

>First: one has to practice going from C# down to Low F# with a quick
>movement of the Left little finger.
>Almost like trying to slide.

>Oh, if we only had roller keys, as on the Oehler clarinets. I really don't
>like the alternate Eb/Ab key on the left. I'm thinking of adding a RH G#/C#
>to my clarinets. Anybody done that ?

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