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Slippery Fingers

Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2018-10-13 01:18

In recent months I have noticed a tendency for my tone to often become less distinct and veiled.
After some analysis I discovered that there was a tendency for my fingers, and especially RH 1 and 3 to creep closer together, resulting in a microscopic leak at the edge of the toneholes.
Now at age 81 I do anticipate some growing difficulties with playing the clarinet. However the other evening, as I was helping my wife get up out of her chair, she remarked "your hands feel very slippery."
This set me thinking and I found that indeed the skin on my hands and fingers seems abnormally smooth. This results in a lack of friction between my finger tips and the tone hole rings, exacerbating the tendency for them to creep closer.

Has anyone else noticed this problem, and know of any solution.
Sand papering my finger tips doesn't sound like a wise thing to me !!

I suspect the answer may be to try and find a decent plateau model clarinet as at the moment the "slippery" problem does not affect my playing the bass clarinet or basset horn.

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