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Re: Tips on fingering quietly?

Author: diz
Date: 2003-04-08 01:14

Who ever said noisy key work was wrong?

Unless it's a highly de-noised studio recording you'll almost always hear the bassoon's clacking away ... I think it adds to the ambience

Bass clarinet keywork is notoriously noisey - but it is fine in my book.

If you'd like to hear a classic example of clacking keys, Naxos recording of Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe Suite 2, with a Czech orchestra whose name escapes me (maybe Bratislava?) has a wonderful clacketty bass clarinet during the opening "birds at dawn" sequence.

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