Klarinet Archive - Posting 000196.txt from 2002/08

From: Ed Wojtowicz <ewoj@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Throat F and F# fingerings
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:51:59 -0400

When I studied with Marcellus, he instructed me to use the first finger for
F# almost exclusively. He told me that it sounded better and the thumb and
two side keys was a trill fingering. This may be from the "French School" as
you describe here.

Ed

> From: "John J. O'Neill" <avodah@-----.com>
> Subject: [kl] Throat F and F# fingerings
>
> I have been wondering about this for quite a while. My first teacher
> taught me to use the left-hand thumb & the two right-hand trill keys
> when playing throat F#. He called this fingering 'the Italian Method.'
> My second teacher told me to forget that fingering and use the left-hand
> index finger to produce throat F#. He called this fingering 'the French
> Method.'

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