Author: Ajay
Date: 2007-09-12 21:07
With practice I had got to the stage where I was playing up and down scales almost as easily as on my normal clarinet.
Then, midway through my practicing there was a sudden change. The notes B, C, and D just above the break became completely unplayable. Eventually I was able to just about sound them if I descend from clarion G, but either moving form chalumeux to clarion, or trying to play a B, C, or D without a runup is impossible, I just get a really high squeaky harmonic.
The difficulty is that while it felt like a sudden change, it could be an escalation of the very minor initial problem, which reached a critical point and is now crippling, or it could be that it is a new problem. Given the fact just before this new setback the clarion register was starting to become easier, it is even possible the initial 'problem' was just me being inexperienced on the instrument, but now there is definitely a problem.
It is a Selmer Rosewood Contra alto, the two numbers written on it are L5252, and C5058.
I do not know what is wrong, but the three notes now virtually impossible to play are the ones that use the register vent on the upper joint instead of the one on the crook. Could this be significant?
Any help much appreciated
(The reason I describe this as an emergency is because this weekend is the band's first weekend course, where we have two days of working on parts in sections, and with the concert band festival coming up relatively soon, I really don't want to miss it.)
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