Klarinet Archive - Posting 000075.txt from 2006/06

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] F - D - F fingering
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:05:00 -0400


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patton Hunnicutt [mailto:bass9396@-----.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 4:10 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] F - D - F fingering
>
> The open D only sounds nasty if you are not used to playing it. True,
> what is difficult for one may not be for another, but it is a massive
> waste of energy to try to use a half hole to F-D-F in this context. Being
> a bassist I am quite familiar with the half hole and I teach it like a mad
> dog, but it just isn't helpful here IMO. The open D can be had with
> relatively little work. I think some of us would be shocked at the wide
> eyes I see when I teach this to my students and they realize how easy it
> to play.
>
> [roger.shilcock@-----.uk] wrote:
>
> Another problem with the "open" D is that it makes quite a nasty noise,
> quite
> different in quality from the F. There seems to be nothing wrong with what
> Keith B. recommends. The difficulty is basically an embouchure problem
> and
> nothing to do with fingering.
> Roger S.
>
>

Keith is on the mark....

Forest Aten

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