Klarinet Archive - Posting 000230.txt from 2002/07

From: "Daniluk, Bill" <bdaniluk@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] FW: [kl] switching between fingering systems
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:00:09 -0400

I would also be interested in the mental mechanism at work here. I recently
had a Bass Clarinet overhauled and was upset that the first space f did not
speak properly - until I realized that I was fingering it with open thumb
and second finger lh, as if it were third space c on a tenor sax. I have a
lot of Albert system clarinets and have trouble keeping track of the rh b/f#
and the lh f/c when I play them. I would like to know how the klezmer and
dixieland players who use these instruments regularly hit these fingerings.
Perhaps if you played nothing but Albert systems....
Bill Daniluk

-----Original Message-----
... I played tons of
saxophone for years, and never had any problems doubling, but that is a
different-enough instrument to make it easy to adapt. I know Michelle
Zukowsky switches between Oehler and Boehm, and I'm sure others do it
too. Anyone know of any mental tricks? I suspect, though, that in the
end, the answer, as usual, is the old stand-by: practice, practice,
practice.

Bill Edinger
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