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Re: B7, C8?

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017 Date:   2008-01-25 12:52 >>Yes, I can play C8. It's a good way to clear the pedestrians from the sidewalk in front of my house. >> Yes. Shadow Cat informs me that playing C8 in front of a 20-year-old feline violates any number of laws against cruelty to animals. It's a more horrible noise on some clarinets than on others, but after going slap-happy for a few days when I discovered, two weeks ago, that my newly-purchased (used) Leblanc Normandy can pop up to the stratosphere with the greatest of ease, I've taken pity on Shadow and desisted, for now. I don't really like the sound of those notes up there much, myself. If I want to hear a note that high-pitched, I'd rather hear it on an instrument designed to play that high, instead of torturing the clarnet and the cat. You don'tnecessarily need the most luxurious pro clarinet and mouthpiece setup to get the best altissimo. That 1983 Leblanc Normandy I just bought (wood, Paris) originally sold as a step-up model for students. The mouthpiece that was in the case with it is a plastic hunk-o-junk on which I can't really play *anything*; but fwiw (I'm an amateur), I get the altissimo best on that clarinet with a hard rubber Leblanc mouthpiece with a medium tip opening. It's the throw-in mouthpiece that came with a Leblanc pro (no model name) clarinet, probably from the 1970s. Lelia http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.

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