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Rehfeldt/Smith fingering problem?

Author: Plearn
Date: 2007-12-14 08:33
Attachment: cap_012.jpg (49k)

Hi!
I am a composer from Rochester NY and I plan to use several multiphonics in a chamber piece I am currently working on. I emailed a colleague about the fingerings I found in Rehfeldt's book, but she told me that one of them (under the Smith fingering appendix) would not work for her. I was wondering if anyone had a better fingering, or if there was a specific technique to it... I'm not a clarinetist myself, but if there is any way I could make the technique for obtaining the desired result clearer to the performer, I'm sure she would appreciate it

Attached is a jpeg screen capture (in Bb, transposed, with Smith fingering). tempo is about quarter=140.

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Re: Rehfeldt/Smith fingering problem?

Author: GBK
Date: 2007-12-14 12:13

The fingering is fine.

The other possibility is to finger the B3 with the regular fingering:

T x x x / o x o

which will yield the overtone D6.

...GBK

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Thanks

Author: Plearn
Date: 2007-12-14 22:03

Thanks GBK! I really appreciate your help on that one... I was talking to my friend and found out her instrument uses an NX system, not Boehm. Maybe that's why it didn't work for her, but I'm not really enough of an acoustician to make a guess on that (although I know the NX has a different bore shape... ) Anyway, thanks again,
- Pete

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