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Re: Fingering Chart B flat Clarinet

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2019-07-12 04:42

The bridge key mechanism is there so that we can play the "Bb" that sits on the first ledger line above the staff using the first fingers of each hand.......great for arpeggios and other circumstances. Unfortunately due to the acoustic properties of the clarinet, using the same fingering for the twelfth below (throat "Eb") renders an "Eb" that is almost a quarter tone sharp. I am particularly sensitive to this since I have run into a number of students that for some God forsaken reason have taken this on as their primary fingering for "Eb."

HORRIBLE !!!

For some really fast passages (or odd large interval trills) you can get away with using this fingering but otherwise should be avoided at all costs. I have no idea why Buffet lists that fingering on a "standard fingering" chart. It could be included in a trill chart or special circumstances mention but not as a normal fingering.

..............Paul Aviles

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