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Re: Lower Clarion Problems

Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2017-12-20 07:05

Apologies if I belabor the fingering idea, but . . . for me the RH pinky has a harder time reaching the key for B4 than it does reaching the key for C5. The stretch for B4 requires the finger to fan out a bit further and curve down further. It's worse on my A clarinet than my Bb (both R13s).

I have a warm-up exercise for this pinky & issue. If I skip the warm-up on my A and just dive into something with enough sharps to require numerous RH B4s, then the base of my thumb gets sore and some of the RH fingers want to pull off the holes, particularly the index finger.

My own ideas about this mostly blame the thumb rest for being too low, and in the past I considered doing whatever to raise it, but the warm-up exercise seems to allow everything to work. Anyway, you might check hand angle and finger operation in a mirror.

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