Klarinet Archive - Posting 000167.txt from 2007/05

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Awkward Tremolo?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 13:26:53 -0400

On 21 May, Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com> wrote:

> I'm usually pretty clever at coming up with acceptable fingerings for
> tremolos, but I have one now that is stumping me. We have a piece for
> band with a tremolo between one-ledger-line clarino Bb and
> two-ledger-lines D.

Try this; it takes a bit of practice, but is quite tractable:

thumb+speaker
Bb x x o / x x x / F#C# key

no thumb, no speaker
D o o o / x x o /

The first fingering is sometimes called 'Stadler's fingering'; and as a
general principle RH additions often help to sharpen an 'open' D (overblown
throat G) or 'open' C# (overblown throat F#), as in the second fingering.

Clarion B natural (and clarion C) also have 'long' (sharp for B and
slightly flatter for C) versions obtained by putting the three RH fingers
down; yielding the following solution for the tremolo between B and D that
may be more acceptable in context than the normal B and unadjusted open D:

thumb+speaker
B x o o / x x x /

no thumb, no speaker
D o o o / x x o /

If you play old clarinets you quickly get used to finding this sort of thing;
but it's useful to some extent on the modern instrument too, even though the
linkages limit the range of possibilities.

Tony
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