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Re: Pedagogy Of The Eb Clarinet

Author: Tony F
Date: 2020-01-24 12:13

"it's that people who write parts for it write 'way too high for the instrument, treating the eefer as if it were a piccolo instead of using the instrument in its clarion and lower registers to add color. "

This is precisely my experience. In another life I played a lot of Eb clarinet. Much of the music written for the Eb could only be described as being in the screech register. On several occasions I just dropped the part an octave and mostly it didn't cause any problems. I'm not sure if it was even noticed. It certainly sounded better.

Tony F.

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