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Re: High Notes C5 - C-6 Tips ?

Author: Ed Lowry
Date: 2017-09-15 00:17

Stranger on the Shore -- a good trivia question. First British pop song to be number one on the American charts. Played by Acker Bilk -- what a great name! He had a really loose-sounding embouchure which he ascribed to getting into a few scrapes (as I think he called it) as a youth. It was featured as the piece that Rowena was learning to play in Mr. Holland's Opus. When I first heard it, I thought that no teacher would allow a student to play with that tone. But Acker pulled it off.

In the version I have on CD, he takes it up to and perhaps beyond E 6 for awhile -- which is not how the notes are written in my "one hit wonders" songbook.

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