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Re: Boosey & Hawkes Symphony 1010

Author: Chris P
Date: 2015-05-23 22:43

Similarly with large bore Selmers, you don't need to open the Ab/Eb key for the altissimo D or Eb - maybe for the high E as well.

There's a video on YouTube of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing 'March to the Scaffold' where Gino Cioffi plays the altissimo D at the end (3:24 in the following link) without using the Ab/Eb key (on his '40s Selmer) and that has generated some comments either on there or maybe on here that he doesn't use the Ab/Eb key for altissimo D - probably as he didn't need to. Jack Brymer mentions in his book, "On some instruments the normal fingering includes [the Ab/Eb key]. This is a nuisance and should not be."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNSeBwy4qGw

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Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
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