Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-11-07 18:15
Luuk wrote:
> Reading the reactions to the OP question, the LH Eb appears to
> be of no value or even a pain in the (insert favorite body part
> here).
>
> I have to say that I'm really lucky with it, and would run into
> fingering trouble several times a year without it. And yes, I
> do prepare.
Well, the point (or at least my point) isn't really that it's useless. Yes, I found it a "pain in the (insert...)" - because I had to overcome too much earlier learning and habit. It was a solution to problems I had long ago learned to solve in other ways.
I'm sure that there are players, either younger or more flexible than I am, who use and even cherish that extra key. I'm sure there are keys on a standard 17-key 6-ring Boehm clarinet that at one time weren't there, but that I couldn't easily play without. I've used those 17 keys for 60 years and would need to relearn some patterns to get along without any of them.
The OP's original question was "How essential...for improv or sight-reading?" The consensus answer is that, however convenient some players find it, it isn't **essential** and, that it's convenience doesn't really depend on what kind of playing you're doing.
Karl
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