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Re: harsh F#5

Author: John Peacock
Date: 2018-04-12 12:49

This is always a poor note: being forked, it's not vented properly. The Acton vent on the B+H 1010 cures the venting to some extent, but for every other instrument, you need to take some evasive action. I have 3 strategies:

(1) The chromatic fingering with the sliver key. But this often the opposite problem: a bit too dull and covered.

(2) Add the Ab/Eb key

(3) Play it with the ring finger rather than the middle finger: xxx oox instead of xxx oxo

(2) and (3) make the note a little sharper, but it's easy to compensate (as we routinely do, for example, to deal with the fact that E5 tends to be a little flat). For a solo, in particular, (3) is very effective in terms of tone quality, and converts that F# from one of the worst notes to one of the best.

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