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Re: Odd B&H Imperial

Author: Chris P
Date: 2009-04-16 01:34

It's there so you can play Bb by closing both LH1 tonehole and the 'bis key' spatula (as on saxes) with the one finger, but the Bb is slightly sharp with this fingering (and the Eb in the lower register with this fingering is too sharp to be of any use).

Though I can see with the 'bis key' the Bb-C trill can be done with LH finger 1 alone using the fingering x,oo|ooo for Bb instead of using the side, cross key or long Bb and trilling with more than one finger.

On saxes my main Bb fingering is the 'bis key' fingering, though I do use the side key and long Bb fingerings as well, but having tried this fingering on clarinet I found it doesn't work so well (but I still have side, long and forked Bbs - I've never used the cross key Bb and blocked that tonehole up).

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
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