Klarinet Archive - Posting 000720.txt from 2002/10

From: Gary Truesdail <gir@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Half hole
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 22:14:52 -0500

Yes - something similar. As some others on this list will tell you
rolling the first finger off the tone hole as opposed to raising it
straight up helps keep wide interval leaps to the high D from 'popping'
out (if your clarinet has that problem)

GaryT.

Angelina Lopez-Frank wrote:
>
> I just arrived from this year's All State Honors Band from which I
> discovered some new revelations. Out of a clarinet section of 16, I was the
> only member who half holed (and continue to) all notes from D above the
> staff and above. My section coach chastised me and urged me to stop this
> "bad habit", while my teacher had grinded this into my brain several years
> ago. There are occasions when I don't half hole, but more often than not, I
> do. Half hole exercises are even part of my warm up. Does anyone else on
> this list half hole, and if so, how often do you apply it?
>
> Angelina Lopez-Frank
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