Author: Hunter_100
Date: 2022-09-26 20:27
You need to try lots of reeds and see how it goes. Over the past year, I bought a box of vandoren 2.5, then 3, then 3.5, then 4 reeds in traditional. Then I tried 4's, 3.5s, and 3's in V12. I settled on the 3.0 V12s for my B40. The San Francisco plays pretty nice also with the 3.5 V12s, but I just got a box of White Master Bbs 3.5s for that one, since Fobes says the mouthpiece was designed for them. I have not reached a firm conclusion there, but they do sound and play nice so far (edit: after a few months of playing, I can definitely say the 3.5 white masters play better. The regular eb reeds on the Fobes have a more buzzy sound especially in throat tones). At some point I will have to try the white masters on the B40 and see how that plays.
You can also try standard Bb reeds too. I did not really like them, but lots of other people advocate for them. If you have the stock E11 barrel, you will have to cut the reeds shorter at the butt end so they don't overlap the barrel ring.
I really like variations on throat tone fingerings for altissimo. They work well on my eb. I use an F# fingering for C#, no register key. Also the side key variation for F# works too to make C#. Open G fingering for D, and you can add the register key if it helps but I don't use it. Throat Ab makes a D#, Throat Bb for E. Add the right trill keys to throat Bb will make F and F# depending on which ones. You can also add trill keys to the throat Ab to make F# depending on the run of notes. Adding the typical eb pinkie key on all of these sometimes makes them slightly sharper or sound a little easier for me. You can also add various sliver keys and other side keys to try and move the pitch around a little.
For loud sustained notes, the "long fingerings" for F and F# work great too. For E, you can use the normal altissimo fingering plus add your first finger left hand too. All of these are in the fingering chart I shared earlier too but not all in Hadcock's book.
I find that the fingers for B, C, and D tend to be sharp with normal fingerings. As Steve said, you can lose the register key with appropriate voicing and it brings the pitch down. On the normal D fingering, you can also lose the pinkie eb key but on my instrument it makes the note more unstable (but flatter).
Post Edited (2022-10-24 21:26)
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