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Re: Throat G to F# Advice Needed

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2010-06-27 23:16

I have just recently sent myself into a period of re- re- re- discovery on this very topic. Marcellus' justification is that he prefered maintaining a note in one hand if at all possible. I have for many MANY years been using the side key alternate in MOST situations and have found re-teaching myself the standard fingering a bothersome task. There are rewards to having both within your ability depending on the notes before and after this sequence in a given pattern.

The "sister" to this issue is whether to use the fork or just flip from first to second finger in the RIGHT hand. I suppose in both cases the real advantage to the STANDARD fingers is that your fingers maintains a rock solid attitude above their respective tone holes. Using the fork or side key alternates forces the fingers to deviate slightly to make that happen.

..................Paul Aviles

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