Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-11-06 03:25
rgoldem wrote:
> I understand that the Eb lever is not really essential for
> people who plays concert music. You can always rehearse a piece
> before playing it in order to avoid digitation problems.
> However this does not seem to be true for improvisation and
> sight-reading since you don’t really have time to prepare
> yourself beforehand.
I think the bottom line is that, regardless of what kind of music you play or whether it's written or improvised, if you accustom yourself to having the LH Ab/Eb, it can make some combinations easier. If you don't have the key, you learn to manage without it, as pretty much all clarinetists did in the fairly recent past. Whether you're improvising or reading, you can slide, you can switch sides mid-note, you can cover a jump between keys with articulation. It's a technical issue, not one of the instrument's mechanism.
Karl
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