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Pino's Trill Fingerings

Author: Liam Murphy
Date: 2008-01-27 23:00

Clarinet BBoard,

Upon completing David Pino's book "The Clarinet and Clarinet Playing", I was compelled learn more about different trill fingerings. He explains how to perform trills from:

F-G (three or four ledger lines)

B-Db (one or two ledger lines)

Eb-F (three ledger lines) *

Of his explanations, I could comprehend the B-Db, and F-G ones. The trill from Eb-F employed the use of 'Half-Hole"(ing), which alluded me. Could someone elaborate?

I was hoping that, for each trill that someone has to be taught, a fingering could be explained. Including fingerings/alternatives for the above (I am not confident that my own explanations will be comprehensible).

Thanks in advance for any responses.

-Liam

*QUOTE FORM PINO'S BOOK:*

TR/023,C#-G# --- 000,G#-D#

"This fingering will give you the high F, of course; to effect the trill down to E-flat, 'half-hole" the tone-hole No. 1, and then trill on tone hole No. 4"

Post Edited (2008-01-27 23:00)

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Re: Pino's Trill Fingerings

Author: GBK
Date: 2008-01-28 00:02

What Pino is saying (very awkwardly) is to play the standard F6 fingering:

TR oxx C# / ooo Eb

and trill down to Eb6 by slightly covering (half holing) the first tone hole (LH) and trilling down to Eb6 using (covering) the 1st hole in the right hand.

The benefit (I assume) would be to give you a clear F6 before trilling downwards. This could be useful when you want to trill Eb6 to F6 starting on the upper note (eg: Mozart)

Just for further reference-

There are 2 basic Eb6 to F6 trill fingerings:

1. Play the standard Eb6: TR oxx/ xo!o Eb/Ab and trill the 4th LH finger

2. Play the Eb6: TR oxx/oox Eb/Ab and trill the 4th LH finger

and a good alternative in other situations:

With the thumb hole covered, overblow a throat Bb and trill to F6 by using the 2 top RH side keys

...GBK

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