Klarinet Archive - Posting 000355.txt from 2006/03

From: Bill <wde2@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] fat fingers
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:31:28 -0500

I've been thinking about "trading up" from my Noblet Eb (which has
some very nice aspects along with some frustrating flaws), although
the unexpected totalling of my daughter's car (it wasn't her fault!)
may delay that a bit, and a friend in our community band generaously
brought her fairly new R13 Eb in for me to try out. It then occurred
to me that I will have a serious problem facing me if I want to try
out any new instruments: my fingers are too big to play an Eb
because of the sliver keys, which I have removed (left hand) or cut
down (right hand) to keep from bumping them all the time. How am I
going to try out horns? I don't think a dealer is going to be too
happy about having somebody modifying their instruments just to try
them out. By the way, I bought the Noblet just to fool around with
on my own, and ended up playing it in our band full-time (except when
there's no Eb part); that's how I came to the conclusion that I
needed to do a little "repair" work on it so that I could play
presentably. Finger reduction surgery is not an acceptable solution.

Bill Edinger

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