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Re: Weird keys on Selmer Centered tone

Author: Chris P
Date: 2023-01-28 20:17
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Being a sax player and also having found myself playing far more oboe than I was hoping, the articulated C#/G# isn't an issue as both saxes and oboes have that. I've even linked up the C#/G# pad cup on my Prestige bass to make it articulated and also had a request from another orchestral bass clarinettist to do that to hers as she too finds it a benefit rather than a hindrance. Only when I play a clarinet with a standard fixed C#/G# key do I have to stop myself holding the C#/G# key down too early.

And now I have a set of full Boehm A, Bb and Eb clarinets, that means I don't have to think when using any of them with the fingerings I want to use rather than fingerings I have to use. I still wouldn't mind a Selmer Series 9 full Boehm C clarinet to complete the set and I know they're out there.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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