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RE: tricks on how to play "high c" on a

Author: Dee
Date: 2000-02-06 16:06

ron wrote:
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This is a tough one, Crystal.
It's been a long time since I've even contemplated this. However, I once knew a sergeant in an Air Force band who delighted himself and amazed other players by playing piccolo parts (impeccably, by the way) on his Bb horn. To the best of my recollection he used closed thumb,register and 1st and 2nd fingers of both hands for an ultra high B and both forefingers only for high C. Be brave and experiment. You may find some uncanny fingerings (you might try some with the thumb hole open) that work for you at that stratospheric range. I don't know that there are any 'standard' fingerings for notes up there, they'll be overtones of something.
Let us know what you find out.
Ron
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These are the standard fingerings shown in both the Rubank Advanced fingering charts and in the Klose fingering charts. These also show adding the throat Ab key to these fingerings as another approach.

While I haven't gotten around to ordering the Ridenour and Sims books on fingerings, there are no doubt others.

Just a point of information, *all* notes above the chalumeau (and I include the throat tones in the chalumeau since mathematically this is where they belong) are overtones of chalumeau notes. Fingerings for notes above the chalumeau are based on the overtone series throughout the range of the clarinet although certain ones are so flat that the "standard" fingerings may actually be the next note up in the scale to offset the natural flatness of the strict overtone series.

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