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Author: iriegnome
Date: 2018-02-16 19:32
I bought my daughter a 13 key Eb L(low pitch) clarinet. Great little instrument, but we cannot find a fingering chart for it. Can anyone help? Point me in some sort of direction?
Post Edited (2018-02-16 19:34)
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Author: kdk
Date: 2018-02-16 20:09
If you're talking about a piccolo clarinet (smaller than a Bb), it's fingered the same way as a Bb clarinet. At a very advanced level, players develop idiosyncratic variant fingerings to compensate for the pitch tendencies on their individual instruments particularly in the third ("altissimo") register, but the standard fingerings are the same for Bb and Eb and a good Bb clarinet fingering chart should do.
13 keys/6 rings is the layout of a standard Boehm system clarinet, and LP or low pitch has in most places been the standard since the mid-1900s.
Karl
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Author: zhangray4
Date: 2018-02-16 20:35
I thought 17 keys/6 rings were the standard? Or am I crazy?
-- Ray Zhang
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Author: kdk
Date: 2018-02-16 22:31
You're right. Brain cramp...
So, I wonder what's missing on this Eb clarinet. Is it not a Boehm system instrument?
Karl
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Author: iriegnome
Date: 2018-02-20 00:13
So thank you all for your responses. I do not play. My daughter does. I just get to buy these crazy things for her. This is an older 13 key (Not sure how many rings) clarinet. Her college professor seems to think it is tuned in the 435 range. It is a LP. I could not tell you if it were a Boehm system or not. But from what I am gathering, the fingering on this little "piccolo" clarinet should be the same as a Bb?
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Author: zhangray4
Date: 2018-02-20 02:30
if you can post a few pics of the clarinet, in particular the tone hole and keys, we can probably see if it is Boehm or Oehler fingering
-- Ray Zhang
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2018-02-20 02:31
Attachment: 13_key_fingerchart_klose.jpg (767k)
From the number of keys I suspect that this is a "Simple" or "Albert" system instrument. The fingering will be the same as on a Bb simple or albert system but not the same as a Bb Boehm instrument. Are there 2 or 4 keys under the right little finger? If 2 it is probably simple system, if 4 it is Boehm.
Tony F.
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2018-02-26 19:47
If the Eb is the one shown in your attachment then it is an Albert system instrument. You can clearly see that it is different from the Boehm system instrument beside it.
Tony F.
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Author: iriegnome
Date: 2018-02-26 22:43
Good to know, however, still in need of some idea about the fingering
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Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2018-02-27 01:03
The chart posted earlier above by Tony F should cover the first part of its register.
There are also fingering charts online and I believe actually on this site
google "simple system clarinet fingering chart" it gave me a diagram in first hit
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Author: Ken Lagace
Date: 2018-03-09 06:30
It is an Albert System. I have an Albert System from 1840 and it tunes to 435. Sweet looking little Eb!
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