Klarinet Archive - Posting 000895.txt from 2004/07

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: upper altissimo
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:55:42 -0400


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From: "Patricia A. Smith" <arlyss1@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Re: upper altissimo

> Christy Erickson wrote:
>
> >Patricia, I love playing those marches also. However, it's not pleasant
to play them sitting next a bunch of "first clarinet part wanna-be's" who
can barely squeak those notes out, much less play them in tune.
> >
> This goes right up there with clarinet players who insist on playing
> flat in that register, rather than on top of the pitch, because that is
> how they were taught to play those notes in college/university. Scary.
> But true. It has been my experience that too many teachers teach their
> students to be AFRAID of the third register.
>
> Patricia Smith
>

Patricia,

Why do you assume that players in college were *taught to play flat in "that
register"? I've never noticed this to be a more common problem and any other
"clarinet" related intonation issue.

Forest Aten

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