Klarinet Archive - Posting 000213.txt from 2004/05

From: "Nicholas Yip" <clarinets21@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] left handed C# F# key
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 01:13:52 -0400

I have to practically bend my pinkie finger backwards, to get to the center
part of the F#, C# key.

Nicholas Yip
Clarinetist and Music Teacher

>From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] left handed C# F# key
>Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 19:29:28 -0700
>
>Nicholas, you mentioned that you have small hands; but if you look at
>the keys, the 'length' or 'distance' of stretch that is required to
>reach C#/F# isn't much different than what's required to reach B/E.
>
>The difference is that C#/F# requires a sideways spread, which is more
>related to getting the muscles to respond, not to the length of the
>finger.
>
>As an experiment, can you use your right hand to place your left little
>finger on the C#/F# key (while covering everything else)? If so, does
>this cause you any pain? Or is it just that you can't force the finger
>to make this move independently?
>
>As for extending the key, if you look at the neighboring keys, you have
>to wonder where the extension would be placed without obstructing other
>keys?
>
>You also mention that you must press very hard. Have you or a tech
>checked the spring tension, accumulated crud that inhibits the key's
>free motion, a bad pad that requires unusual pressure to make it seal
>properly, etc etc etc?
>
>....fwiw.....
>
>
>
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