Author: Don Berger
Date: 2005-06-10 13:49
Yes you did, Bob D, that is at least Selmer's , Leblanc's, Buffet's method of including the artic. C#/G# in the fingering system of their soprano clarinets. It needs proper assembly-location of the UJ with the LJ, [bridge key "match-up"] but does produce a far better tonality of those notes [by better location of that tone hole] and improve B and Bb [et al] facility with C# [and their 12ths] with only a few drawbacks. Yes, the "extra, 7th" ring allows the use of a "fork" fingering to produce [ a clean] Eb/Bb, a somewhat useful addition to the other 3 fingerings, banana and lower trill keys and the " 1 and 1" [both first fingers] which I prefer on bass cl, as the fork in not available there.. I have at least 5 cls, sop, alto, bass with combinations of these additions [and the other 2] which I learned-about as a kid, my 1st good cl was a P-M Full Boehm. The artic, and the fork are "standard" additions to the Pete Fountain cl series, and other combinations of the 4 are [still?] available from the 3 makers, I dont know about Yamaha, but they prob. do also. Long-winded addition to the above. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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