Klarinet Archive - Posting 000317.txt from 2003/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Weber Concertino
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 10:53:54 -0500

At 11:46 PM 1/14/2003 +0000, Rebecca Brennan wrote:
>Soafter around a month of playing the Weber Concertino I am VERY satisfied
>with it,as I pretty much have been since about a week after i started
>working on it. Before I put in in my small music library, I have one thing
>I need to fix.
>
>At measure 60, there is a half rest, then 16th notes being F#, G, A, G,
>C,B..... I can not cross from the open G up to the C smoothly. It sounds
>like I stop or something. How can I do this without it sounding like I
>took the time to take a breath?

Slight mis-adjustment of the instrument, basically anything that would
cause any leakage on the lower joint, could cause this. In slower passages
you have time to squeeze the keys down and MAKE them seal. In a faster
passage you might not.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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