Klarinet Archive - Posting 000205.txt from 2002/08

From: Paul Harris <pwharris@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Throat F and F# fingerings
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 00:39:56 -0400

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Subject: Re: [kl] Throat F and F# fingerings

> My opinion:
> Flips are to be avoided when ever possible. In this instance, some
> clarinets probably are just as in tune for either fingering, and some
> probably have the same or at least good presence of tone for both
> fingerings, but the fact remains that when you do a flip the coordination
> must be perfect for the sound to be correct. If the thumb or the 1st
finger
> lead or follow any at all, a third tone will occur and a blip however
slight
> will be heard. Thus the modern clarinet is designed with alternate
> fingerings to allow us to not have to flip except on rare occasions. Even
> the very best player will suffer a less than perfect coordination of
finger
> movement on occasion and therefore every effort should be made to assure
> that when (not if) this happens it will not effect the sound of the
> performance. Recorder players have to flip, we for the most part do not.
> Paul Harris
> pwharris@-----.net
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thiel, Mark" <mark.thiel@-----.com>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 3:59 PM
> Subject: [kl] Throat F and F# fingerings
>
>
> >
> > Anthony Wakefield wrote:
> >
> > .> --- Anthony Wakefield wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > > OK -- here's a question for you all regarding >finger switching:
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Suppose you are playing A-B-Bb-B-Bb-B-Bb->B-A all below the
staff.
> > >> >
> > >> > Either play it on the A, or crucify the composer!
> > >>
> > >> The Mozart passage to which the original poster referred is in the
> first
> > >> movement of the clarinet concerto...which is in A. What now, smarty
> > >pants?
> > >> Play it on Bb instead and draw the wrath of the purists? ;-)
> > >
> > >Clever clogs! Well seriously of course, one has to just put in a
serious
> > >amount of time perfecting this passage, [I still believe Mozart should
> have
> > >been crucified for writing this tho` - "Could do better", as his
college
> > >report might have said - but considering this work was one of his last,
> > >there is indeed no excuse! :<) ].
> >
> > OK - I should have specified on a Boehm clarinet. I'm not blaming
Mozart
> > a bit for this, I'm sure that Stadler had (and Tony P. has) a lot of
much
> > more nasty finger exercises to contend with than this little passage.
> > Switching fingers isn't necessarily evil or even that difficult; I
think
> > clarinettists should pick up a recorder or similar instrument every once
> in
> > a while -- it's goodpractice for moving fingers in contrary directions.
> >
> > BillWright wrote:
> > >On my clarinet (Bb), the 'chromatic' fingering (with the right sliver
> > >key) is terribly sharp, not just a little bit sharp.
> >
> > Well get it fixed! -- that hole is only open for the B,the F# and the
> > altissimo Eb ( &maybe some other altissimo notes), so there's no reason
> you
> > can't tune it right in at least one register.
> >
> > Mark Thiel
> >
> >
> >
> >
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