Klarinet Archive - Posting 000197.txt from 2002/08

From: "Kent Krive" <k.krive@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Throat F and F# fingerings
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 16:10:37 -0400

When I studied with him some 48 years ago, George Silfies was an
exclusive-first-finger-F# adherent for all passages except the F-F# trill. I
wonder if he has changed his mind since...

Kent

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Wojtowicz" <ewoj@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Throat F and F# fingerings

> 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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