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RE: Fingerings

Author: Hiroshi
Date: 1999-03-25 01:16

Big difference:In clarinet fingerings,
1)left hand pinky moves the lowest joint pads.As you know,in flute right hand fingers do things for lower pads,and right hand ones for upper pads.This is making clarinet fingerings far more difficult than flute.
(Our brain problem)
2)Clarinet has a register key not like flute.
3)Clarinet have four trill keys not two of flute.
4)Clarinet harmonics consists of 12 degrees,whereas flute of octave.This means in flute you can use the same fingering for low and middle registers,whereas in clarinet,quite different.This makes its fingering more difficult.
5)Highest regiseter tones are emitted using harmonics of lower register fingerings.This is same for clarinet and flute.

But,clarinet has good things too.
1)If you play downward scale with flute,it is very difficult to crescendo.But in clarinet 'very' easy.
2)Clarinet dynamics are very,very wider than flute(I think).

Another different thing:
1)If you play pp with flute,the pitch becomes flat.We should tighten the lip.But in clarinet becomes sharp.To remedy this we should cover lower keys to flatten the pitch.

You can find somewhere in ICA(International Clarinet Association) homepage,how a good clarinet player can get along with flute in Debussy's Apres Midi d'un Faune.

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