Klarinet Archive - Posting 000374.txt from 2005/06

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Alto Clarinet Question
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:00:35 -0400

Sorry, Robert, but I have a couple more questions to ask. When you're
talking about F# (top line), are you using the middle finger
fingering for the F# or the fingering that is first finger and side
key (chromatic fingering) to produce the F#? Does the corresponding
fingering in the fundamental register (low B natural) also play
extremely sharp? Last question - in the second register, how is the
tuning on F natural and E natural?

Having answers to the above questions will help me narrow down the
problem.

Richard Bush

On Jun 20, 2005, at 11:30 PM, Robert Reyes wrote:

> Yes my alto has a plateau system for the fingerings, so yes your
> assumption
> is correct.
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> From: "Richard Bush" <rbushidioglot@-----.net>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 4:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [kl] Alto Clarinet Question
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>> Robert,
>>
>> I'm assuming that this alto clarinet has all finger holes covered by
>> pads (plateau system) and is not like a Bb soprano clarinet with open
>> ring keys which are sealed with the fingers. Is that assumption
>> correct?
>> Please answer that question for me and the group and then I can
>> suggest some things to you.
>>
>> Richard Bush
>>
>> On Jun 20, 2005, at 2:42 PM, Robert Reyes wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hello Again. A few months ago I asked the list for some advise
>>> for playing the alto clarinet. Well I have another question. for
>>> of all I am now playing on a Selmer two piece wood alto clarinet
>>> that goes down to low Eb. The problem that I have been having with
>>> this horn is that no matter how long I play my concert A (F# top
>>> line for me)is always 20 cents flat. If I push in that note is in
>>> tune and all the other ones are really out of tune. So my question
>>> is, what do I have to have done to the alto clarinet so the concert
>>> A is more in tune. Also I would like to say thank you Walter
>>> Grabner. I bought an alto clarinet mouthpiece from him back in
>>> March and I love it. I sound more like an instrument and less like
>>> a thing. Once again thank you. Oh one more question, has any one
>>> tried a legere alto sax reed on an alto clarinet, and if so how did
>>> it sound. Thank You.
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