Klarinet Archive - Posting 000768.txt from 2002/10

From: "WILLIAM SEMPLE" <wsemple@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Half hole
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:23:06 -0500

I have never learned this technique either.

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From: "Joseph H. Fasel" <jhf@-----.gov>
Subject: Re: [kl] Half hole

> Pardon my ignorance. As a recorder player, I know about half-holing, but
> not as a clarinetist. What tone hole or holes does one half-hole?
>
> I usually explain to people in the choirs I sing in that as a singer,
> I'm a pretty good clarinetist. Maybe I should revise that.
>
> Cheers,
> --Joe
>
> On 2002.10.29 14:11 GrabnerWG@-----.com wrote:
> > In a message dated Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:53:42 +0000 (GMT),
roger.shilcock@-----.uk writes:
> >
> > > 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.>>
> >
> > Bravo for your teacher, shame on the section coach. Half-hole has always
been a valuable technique on the clarinet for ease of response in the
altissimo.
> >
> > Walter Grabner
> > www.clarinetXpress.com
> > add a low "C" to your bass clarinet
>
> Joseph H. Fasel, Ph.D. email: jhf@-----.gov
> Decision Modeling and Analysis phone: +1 505 667 7158
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