Klarinet Archive - Posting 000286.txt from 2011/03

From: Martin Baxter <martinbaxter1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bb to D tremolo
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:09:37 -0400


On 30 Mar 2011, at 10:25, corvo di bassetto wrote:

Hi all,

This is clearly an example of bad clarinet writing=85 =

Yet if you have to do it, I'd think of singers and early wind players (espe=
cially natural horns), the way they would execute a shake or tremolo: start=
slowly, it is a kind of yodelling first, and try to speed up until it can =
hardly be noticed (with regular fingerings that is). Good luck. It is a cha=
nce to work on the register break. Just make sure to cover as many holes wi=
th the right hand as possible and leave the left hand fingers as close to t=
he holes as possible. On my clarinet I can leave on all fingers but right t=
humb and index. Those two would rock from keys to holes in as smooth a move=
ment as possible. It sounds like honking or wild geese first, but it is wor=
th while working on it. It will of course never be a really quick tremolo. =
For that you will have to transpose. How about playing the part on a C (Ab-=
C), Eb (F-A) or A (B-Eb) clarinet? Unfortunately, neither is particularly g=
ood. If it was Richard Strauss you'd have a clarinet d'amore in Ab made for=
that tremolo only.

Best regards
danyel

Hi Danyel
If money is no object Amati do a good clarinet in G and the tremolo can eas=
ily be played on that.
Martin

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