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Author: potatohead
Date: 2004-03-11 22:41
Well today at lessons I tried out my first eefer. I was warned that I might not want to ever pick it up again after playing it once, but I really like it. I like challenges.. maybe that's it. Well, I played on a Selmer USA plastic clarinet, not bad. I'm not too sure what mpc/reed I was using but I think I was more of the problem than the setup. I probably sounded awful, but it was so cool. Cool.. I think that's the only word I could think of. I was having trouble hittng notes like thumb+8va key. (My mind is going blank on the note. C on the Bb clarinet... Something on the Eb...). She told me to keep blowing and I did-- I got a very flat note, but oh well. To my surprise, when she had me play long tones with the tuner, the throat tones were very flat. I guess I'm way used to the tuning on a Bb clarinet. I hope I'll get to play it again... I'm weird, I guess. I'm a person who'll try anything... I picked up my friend's french horn and figured out the F scale on there by trial and error within a couple of minutes. (Was that even relevent?) I think I am growing crazy. Maybe eefers have some kind of weird side effect....
-MG
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2004-03-12 14:38
I'm sorry, what was your question?
All seriousness aside, enjoy the eefer --- I love playing it, other than the problem of getting my fat fingers to cover just one key at a time.....
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Author: jez
Date: 2004-03-12 14:44
Enjoy the experience, but don't forget; if it's 'C' on the B flat clarinet it's still 'C' on the E flat.
jez
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2004-03-12 15:02
Yes, a thumb C on any clarinet is still written as a C two lines above the staff. But on the eefer, what's acutally coming out is the equivalent of an an altissimo F on the Bb clarinet (gosh, I hope I have that right).
--Ralph (who hasn't played the eefer since doing "The Marriage of Figaro" in a clarinet choir in college)i
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Post Edited (2004-03-12 15:05)
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Author: Laurie C.
Date: 2004-03-12 16:13
Enjoy. I started the Eb several years ago and found that the small hands I'd been "cursed" with are invaluable on the small horn. The challenges are many but so are the rewards.
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2004-03-13 00:20
If you want to have real fun, try listening to a Eb clarinet play and playing along with a Bb clarinet. That's a real mess!
Alexi - who tried it a few times and concluded that the best option would just be to GET an Eb than try it again.
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Taxijazz
Date: 2004-03-15 11:23
Eb clarinet was my principal instrument for a long time, and in regard to playing along with a Bb-- A professor at UOP asked me: "How do you get two Eb clarinet players to play in tune?" He answered: "Shoot one of them".
For Eb clarinet you might find the best reed available to be a Vandoren 'White Master' (and I don't usually like Vandoren reeds).
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