Author: vintschevski
Date: 2021-12-13 08:31
My hands aren't so very big, but enough to find playing a C clarinet a bit challenging - there's always a cramped feeling, for a start, and paradoxically I seem to have more difficulty covering tone holes than on the B-flat, but I'm sure these problems would diminish if I spent more time practising the C clarinet.
There is one particular problem on the C clarinet, however, which gave me a lot of grief before I realised what was going on. My left-hand ring finger was so close to the sliver key just below it (C#/G#) that as I was playing, the ring finger was bumping the key just enough to raise the tone-hole key a tiny fraction, so it was like having a bad leak - but it wasn't a leak and not detectable with the leak tests, of course.
To avoid this problem I needed to push the sliver key down as far as I could (I mean, down towards the bell-end of the clarinet) and even then I needed to file down the upper side of the sliver key so that my ring finger didn't touch it.
Hauper, I don't know whether this is a problem that you are experiencing, but it could be worth checking. It took me quite a while to realise the problem as one doesn't really feel that ring-finger touching the sliver key unless specifically checking for it.
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