Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2018-01-01 22:03
Perhaps worth remarking that you can both slightly flatten and slightly soften the timbre of the side Bb by shading the 'unringed' tonehole with LH3.
Practice in using this sort of technique on a period clarinet makes it almost routine. The trick is to place your finger adjacent to the hole, and then use the elasticity of the flesh of your finger to adjust how much your fingertip projects into the airflow out of the hole.
Then, you're not trying for an unobtrusive entry at the same time as avoiding being sharp.
A similar manoeuvre helps with the long F# crescendo in Abime des Oiseaux. You can help the entry by shading RH3, slide that off as you crescendo, and then avoid flatness in ff by sliding RH2 partially off so that it just depresses the ring, always listening carefully to the pitch of the result – as in the Weber, of course.
Tony
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