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Author: Steve
Date: 2000-12-01 01:46
I've noticed a lot of talk about the different registers of the clarinet, but I don't really know what notes they encompass. Can anyone tell me what they are - like chalumeau (?).
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-12-01 01:47
You might want to try a search here - there's a number of pointers to the range in the BBoard.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-12-01 03:57
Steve - As Mark suggested, your questions have been quite well discussed previously , so just Search the Phorum, prob. using "register[s?]". The best discussion I have read is in David Pino's book, "The Clarinet and Clarinet Playing" available from Amazon and Barnes&Noble $10-15. He gives a fine run-down on cl acoustics starting on pg 27, well worth reading [even for me!!]. Welcome, Don
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Author: Anji
Date: 2000-12-01 14:54
(From David Pino, The Clarinet and Clarinet Playing)
"The Chalumeau register, the clarinet's register of sounding fundamentals, covers... Lowest E to Bb (above middle C)."
"The Clarion register, using the sounding third partials without the fundamental first partials, covers... B natural to C natural (above the treble staff)."
"The altissimo register, sounding fifth, seventh and ninth partials successively as we go higher covers... C# above the staff to C natural one octave higher."
There's an alternate notation in the Archives and Past discussions that the webmaster and others are using. Theirs is MUCH easier to follow.
I can't even play above G in the clarion register, yet.
I've never seen a fingering chart to include the Altissimo register... I think there's a secret decoder ring or handshake required.
Seriously, search the archives and almost anything clarinetish will be covered.
These folks have been at it since the Arpanet.
Hope that helps
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-12-01 14:00
Anji wrote:
> I've never seen a fingering chart to include the Altissimo
> register... I think there's a secret decoder ring or handshake
> required.
???? Most go well into it.
Go to http://www.wfg.sneezy.org for some nice charts.
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Author: Dee
Date: 2000-12-01 14:01
Most beginner's method books will include fingerings up to altissimo E with some going to altissimo G. Advanced method books will sometimes include a fingering chart to the altissimo C (i.e. above the 5th ledger line above the staff) and more alternate fingerings than beginner's charts. The Rubank books and the Klose Method all include fingering charts. There is also a fingering chart here on sneezy and there are a couple of very comprehensive books available. The latter are sold by Gary Van Cott, one of the advertisers here on sneezy.
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Author: bob gardner
Date: 2000-12-01 14:31
if you want to hear what the altissimo sounds like listen to Benny Goodman. I purchased one of his music books and there isn't a note I can play.
Peace
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Author: Roger
Date: 2000-12-01 19:30
Listen to the Artie Shaw recording of Stardust. He hits a double high B or C at pp; it is as sweet sounding a note as you have ever heard.
Many say Artie Shaw had the best technique of any of the jazz clarinetists of the 1930s I believe it
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Author: john gibson
Date: 2000-12-01 23:38
Roger....you aren't kidding. Artie Shaw was the king of clarinet. I got started over 35 years ago...no make that 40. Anyway, I was hooked on Pete Fountain. Then discovered Artie....makes me wish I could play like that....he's like the Eric Clapton of clarinet....
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Author: Keil
Date: 2000-12-02 16:13
I always had a different idea regarding the register of the clarinet. I've broken them up into the chalumeau, throat tones, clarion, high, and altissimo.
I consider the chalumeau to run from lowest E to middle C, throat tones to be from C# to Bb (roughly), clarion to be the B natural up to G on the staff, high to be G# to G way above the staff, and altissimo to be highest G# to wherever... I don't know how accurate this is but it's always helped me to think of the clarinet built up this way!
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Author: Dee
Date: 2000-12-02 20:15
Keil wrote:
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> I always had a different idea regarding the register of
> the clarinet. I've broken them up into the chalumeau, throat
> tones, clarion, high, and altissimo.
> I consider the chalumeau to run from lowest E to middle C,
> throat tones to be from C# to Bb (roughly), clarion to be the B
> natural up to G on the staff, high to be G# to G way above the
> staff, and altissimo to be highest G# to wherever... I don't
> know how accurate this is but it's always helped me to think of
> the clarinet built up this way!
While there is nothing wrong with this, it does not match the nomenclature used in standard tutorials such as Klose. Nor does it correspond the mathematical harmonic relationship of the notes. The classic standards break it up thus.
Chalumea - low E to throat Bb. Corresponds to the 1st harmonic (also called fundamental). Throat tones are not a separate register but a subset of the chalumeau and most tutorials consider them to run from open G to Bb.
Clarion - B to C just above the staff. Corresponds to 3rd harmonic (this a jump of a twelfth).
Altissimo - usually starting on C# (depends on fingering selected). Corresponds to 5th, 7th, 9th, etc harmonic.
Some of the notes can be played in different registers such as the C#. When played thumb, register key, and two side keys, it is a 3rd harmonic and is thus a clarion note. When played with the thumb, register key, 2nd & 3rd left hand fingers, and 1st & 2nd right hand fingers, then it is a 5th harmonic and is properly called an altissimo note. Some of the specialized trill fingerings can put the low clarion B & C as chalumeau throat tones. The altissimo G can be played in many ways. There are fingerings that permit it to be played as a 5th, 7th, or 9th harmonic. However in this case, they all would be classified as altissimo.
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Author: Anji
Date: 2000-12-03 17:13
Thanks for the pointer, MC! These fingering charts are excellent.
My folding chart ends at Altissimo G.
PS - I heard a local hit a double high B (they announced it afterwards) that I thought would break the glassware. Wow.
anji
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