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 What's your highest note?
Author: Tom H 
Date:   2020-05-20 04:48

I've managed to get a high double Eb, though need a good reed and it's still spotty. Double D is pretty solid. I have fingering a chart that goes up to A above those. Can anyone here play that A? How high can you go? How high can you go comfortably?

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: alanporter 
Date:   2020-05-20 06:17

I don't try. The folks next door complain.

tiaroa@shaw.ca

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: clarinetist04 
Date:   2020-05-20 07:11

Reliably - the D# above super C, that's the highest I've ever seen actually written into music (Miguel del Aguila's Concerto). Seemed like a good place to stop.

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: Bob Bernardo 
Date:   2020-05-20 07:50

Funny Alan! That made my day!


Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces


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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: Philip Caron 
Date:   2020-05-20 10:23

Hi Tom. To avoid misunderstanding, it's best to use the letter/number designations based on the C4 shown to the right of the Clarinet BBoard logo. Probably you refer D7 and Eb7. The last time I looked, the fingering chart from this woodwind.org site went to A7.

Current setup, regular embouchure, decent sound and facility, chromatic to G#7.

Different mouthpiece, slightly modified embouchure, less decent and reliable, to C8.

Another mouthpiece, teeth on reed, experimental, to E8.

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2020-05-20 11:40

Z#

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

The opinions I express are my own.

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: cigleris 
Date:   2020-05-20 12:21

With a good reed comfortably up to an octave above altissimo F (octave above the opening F in Weber 2nd).

Peter Cigleris

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: hans 
Date:   2020-05-20 18:02

With or without teeth on the reed?

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: kdk 
Date:   2020-05-20 18:10

hans wrote:

> With or without teeth on the reed?

That makes my teeth hurt just to think about it. Although, I suspect E3 with my teeth on the reed would be worse.

"I'd -- be -- equally as willing for a dentist to be drilling...." (My Fair Lady)

Karl

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: johng 2017
Date:   2020-05-20 19:50

My highest note is so high that only dogs can hear it, and just barely. I can break windows 3 miles away and NASA complains that the space station computers start to laugh.

John Gibson, Founder of JB Linear Music, www.music4woodwinds.com

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: BG 2017
Date:   2020-05-20 20:15

One night I got up to P!

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: Mark Charette 
Date:   2020-05-20 20:27

johng wrote:

> My highest note is so high that only dogs can hear it

Speaking of dog whistles, and yes, I know it's a clarinet BBoard:

Back in my ill-begotten youth I was a John Mayall fan (Ok, I still am). On his "Turning Point" album the English saxophonist Johnny Almond plays sax. There's a note in the song California that goes up a bit - he slides a tiny bit into it but it's in tune and fat for a high note - and live at the Fillmore East - not shrill or screechy. I remember none of my buddies could ever hit it reliably or make it sound other than an accidental screech.


Listen starting at around 2:50 for the buildup, the note comes at around 3:17 to 3:24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcqZlFMUYQ




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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: cigleris 
Date:   2020-05-20 21:22

Without teeth on the reed. There is however a little adjustment of the lip forward. crossing from altisimo C to C#

Peter Cigleris

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: Tom H 
Date:   2020-05-20 22:03

Some of you guys are higher than me (no pun on Canadian Cannibus). Does C8 mean an 2 octaves above C which is 2 lines above staff (one above the end of Artie Shaw Concerto)?

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: Slowoldman 
Date:   2020-05-20 22:26

If I didn't know this was the Clarinet BBoard, I would think I've accidentally wandered into a trumpet players' convention!

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: Liquorice 
Date:   2020-05-20 22:45

What's my highest note:

You mean... on purpose???

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: Philip Caron 
Date:   2020-05-21 00:52

Hi Tom. Two ledger lines above the staff is C6. C8 is two octaves higher.

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: Tom H 
Date:   2020-05-21 01:07

Thanks Philip. I don't even have a fingering chart for that. Highest mine goes is A and it asks for people to submit one for Bb. Do you know of any place to google to get a chart that high?

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: Philip Caron 
Date:   2020-05-21 02:03

Tom - Your chart sounds like the one on woodwind.org. That's the one I started with. I've modified some of their fingerings and made up my own to C#8. Jason Alder has published a fingering chart for bass clarinet going to E8, five full octaves.

https://www.facebook.com/jasonaldermusic/videos/1151681245188284/

Mouthpieces can limit the high end range. Some of my better sounding mouthpieces balk at playing above F7 or G7. If you add teeth to reed you can go further, but even then the mouthpiece can limit you. With a given setup, my A clarinet seems able to add a half-step or a step above what the Bb can reach, i.e. the same acoustic pitch, so again, it seems the mouthpiece is a limiting factor.

My current mouthpiece, a Behn Prescott, tops out at G7 pretty reliably. I haven't been practicing higher since I took off my Moba L5 last year, which was pretty good to C8 without teeth, but fingerings to C#8 could be recovered (my memory isn't sure about B7 without trying it.)

One day about 3 years ago, probably using a M13 Lyre with teeth, I found my way to E8 and always intended to keep after that, but thus far have not. Presumably those fingerings could be recovered as well. At the time, higher seemed doable.

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: rmk54 
Date:   2020-05-21 02:59

https://youtu.be/VzmZg_eEBwo?t=52

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: Bob Bernardo 
Date:   2020-05-21 06:35

rmk54 Thanks!

That's amazing. Wow! Who need an Eb clarinet when you can do this! This is nuts!


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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: gatto 
Date:   2020-05-21 16:29

Impressing video.

By the way: it seems that Mate Bekavac has changed from Boehm to Oehler? And what could be the reason?

In the video he plays on Boehm (apparently Buffet Prestige or Festival), but on his own website he presents himself with a German clarinet.

I like his recording of Weinberg's 4th Chamber Symphony Op. 153 with the Kremerata Baltica.

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: Tom H 
Date:   2020-05-22 04:43

Yes, great video. Seeing stuff like that just makes you throw up your hands.

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: JTJC 
Date:   2020-05-22 14:59

Like Tom I can get the D# above Super C, no teeth. I feel there’s more to come and I could go further but it’s finding fingerings that, I think, is holding me back. Main reason I want to go higher is to make the lower notes, to C7, easier.

Can anyone suggest fingerings (Alder aside) that can be used to take me smoothly, at reasonable speed and chromatically from, say, Bb6 upwards beyond C7 to wherever on soprano clarinet? I’m aware not all instruments respond the same on these higher notes but any tried, tested and working fingerings would be a good starting point.

Thanks,

John

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: Tom H 
Date:   2020-05-23 01:06

I've been fooling around a while with this stuff. That Eb above C7 that I can get I can only do with my Legere #2 reed. With my Vandoren 2.5s my limit is C7. So I figure it has mostly to do with mouthpiece and reed. Maybe some of those high fingerings work better on certain clarinets than on others. For some of those notes there are an awful lot of suggested fingerings.

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: EbClarinet 
Date:   2020-05-24 23:53

On my new instrument, I can comfortably get to the C# a half step above super C w/o biting.

I can only get to the altissimo G# in Eb clarinet and C clarinet. I've heard there's a high A in the eefer part in a Spanish tune.

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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: seabreeze 
Date:   2020-05-25 02:37

Mate Bekavac has arguably found ways to do more in the extended altissimo than any other clarinetist. He also plays the Duduk, a small Armenian reed instrument made of apricot wood. I wonder if any of his super high register techniques derive from playing the Duduk (which has a very wide double reed--much wider than an oboe reed). https://youtube.com/results?search_query=mate+bekavac+duduk.

As noted above, he has evidently been performing lately on a German clarinet. Here he is on "Christmas Morning" and "Dunav 1": https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mate+bekavac+christmas+morning

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mate+bekavac+Somus+2019+Niz+Dunav+1.



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 Re: What's your highest note?
Author: Jack Kissinger 
Date:   2020-05-26 05:24





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