Author: ThatPerfectReed
Date: 2011-06-09 02:25
This is just great info! I really appreciate people's replies.
Even if I never implement it, I find it interesting.
Chris: people would pay money to watch a video of your work!!
Ken: (With humor) If the great Kal Opperman were alive today, and we showed him this instrument modified by his brother, a part of me thinks he'd yell at us, and ask us to name any piece of music for our instrument, for which MORE PRACTICE, not more hardware would solve the problem.
We might retort "the opening of the cadenza in Messenger's Solo de Concours" in which case Kal would get his left pinky Ab /Eb absent clarinet out, blaze through this passage at incredible speed to prove us wrong, and insist we practice more, and complain less!
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I must say, I am impressed with the forethought of virtally all the manufacturer's implementation of just such a key on the models they have out which offer it, be it for example, Buffet's higher end models (my brand--R13, not Tosca), or say Morrie Backun's clarinets. They've put the key close enough to reach, and yet out of the way enough so you don't "finger confuse" it with the existing keys operated by the left pinky.
(http://www.backunmusical.com/clarinets.html)
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