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Author: Mickey
Date: 1999-01-23 03:09
I have a Publicity Picture of Ptte Fountain playing a left handded clarint .. But I think the negative is reversed..LOL Did Abe acctualy take the shot??
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-01-23 03:20
Mickey wrote:
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Did Abe acctualy take the shot??
Yes - he took it, sent it to me & I scanned it in. That's also why he put a regular Albert clarinet right next to it - to show it wasn't a fake.
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Author: Rick2
Date: 1999-01-23 03:54
What I want to know is how many people here think they are ambidextrious enough to be able to pick up a left-handed clarinet and play it without practicing it first?
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Author: jim lande
Date: 1999-01-23 04:15
Rick2 wrote:
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What I want to know is how many people here think they are ambidextrious enough to be able to pick up a left-handed clarinet and play it without practicing it first?
Rick: it may not be as hard as you think. Sometimes, just as a goof, I play my flute totally wrong way around. Actually, I suspect the adjustment to Albert system would be harder. Anyway, i would love to get a chance to find out.
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Author: Arnold the basset hornist
Date: 1999-01-25 09:50
Once I read, Mr. Baermann (don't remember if Carl or Heinrich) initiated a lever which closes the forked bb/f'' ring key to pitch the altissimo E down. Today's Oehler have an additional ring key for lower hand index finger which is kept close if the ab/eb'' key (lower hand little finger) is opened. (Altissimo E is just the same fingering as on boehm - I viewed sneezy's chromatic fingering chart.)
This picture shows a lever which could provide such a function.
- How is it actuated? -
I could imagine either by the lower hand thumb or by the eb/eb''-key.
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Author: Arnold the basset hornist
Date: 1999-01-25 15:42
I checked the picture again. I think it's just a post and a lever from the upermost ring of the lower joint which looked like a special mechanism.
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