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Re: alt fingering Eb4

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-11-26 19:09

Hank Lehrer wrote:

> I make it a habit of using the sliver key as much as possible
> which is the best for a chromatic scale

Why? In any case some of us who, like the OP have short, stubby fingers find the resulting crowding in the area risky. In fact, on my Eb clarinet I wedge a piece of cork under the LH sliver key to keep it from opening at all so I can't bump into it and open it accidentally, but I also can't use the LH Eb/Bb at all, so I do without (quite comfortably). I've seen some newer instruments with the slivers (both hands, I believe) very much shortened, which I think reduces the risk of accidental openings.

Each to his own if the result is good!

>
> Make yourself learn these alternate fingerings. What may be
> easier now is not the way to really learn the instrument.

I think his point wasn't that his fingering is easier, but that it sounds better. That's a valid choice if the result is good. But I second the advice to learn all the available fingerings. Wider choice is always good.

> Exercise/practice will get you over the awkwardness.
>

Sometimes. Sometimes it only reduces the awkwardness enough to make a fingering useable when it's the least awkward among the available awkward choices. :-)

Karl

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