Klarinet Archive - Posting 000090.txt from 2003/10

From: "Rebecca Brennan" <u_cant_kill_the_rooster@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Tongue movements
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 12:45:19 -0400

I have never heard it be called the banana key before. I remember calling it
"that thing that you push when you finger Bb to make a B" when I was in
middle school. Then one of my band dictators called it a "fork key" which
makes a little sense to me. What I want to know is why they call it the "K"
key. The only think I could think of is K for Kromatic, because if they
called it a C key, it could cause confusion.

Sound like a reasonable theory??

-Rebecca

>From: AnneLenoir@-----.net (Anne Lenoir)
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: RE: [kl] Tongue movements
>Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 07:34:09 -0600 (MDT)
>
>Noel, I do know that looking at the music and rehearsing the counting
>and the fingerings can be a tremendous help. Also marking where to take
>a breath. If I have a part that has tricky counting plus tricky
>fingerings, it does help me to "tap out" the counting in my head and
>also mark the beats and maybe indicate the pinkies (L or R) or the
>banana key (K). Even then, I still have to run through the tough
>passages a few times in my mind.
> I am off to Mr. Bell's 8th grade band. Bye for now. ANNIE
>
>
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