Klarinet Archive - Posting 000683.txt from 2002/07

From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Conservative Clarinet Ensemble Ranges?
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:04:54 -0400

The current Buffet alto clarinet is a wonderful instrument. Only the lack
of a true double register key prevents it from being "perfect."

The altissimo is just fine. I prefer to play up through E above the staff
using the throat keys when I can as they have a more open sound than the
regular altissimo fingerings.

Gary
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At 05:10 AM 7/23/02, you wrote:
>... And the slur that a nerd is a clarinettist who owns his/her own alto
>doesn't
>help. I suspect very little design attention has been paid to the alto
>clarinet,
> too.
>As regards the lower, the easier the higher, it all depends. An earlier wooden
>manifestation of the Selmer contra-alto lacked the LH first finger half-hole
>facility, so that one was virtually barred from playing in the altissimo
>register.
>Roger S.
>
>
>
>
>
>In message <000e01c23238$777244d0$35021586@-----.org
>writes:
> > << And I must say, that E above the staff on alto clarinet is usually
> one of
> > the sickest sounds to come from an instrument, even for an above average
> > player on a good instrument that is in good repair. Altissimo notes in
> > general on the alto clarinet give me an idea of what it would sound like to
> > put live cats in a blender. >>
> >

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