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Re: Weird keys on Selmer Centered tone

Author: NOLA Ken
Date: 2023-01-30 00:08

Imre:

I've only been playing my Leblanc Symphonie 3 full Boehm for a few months, but have found the long Bb to be a godsend for a passage of five measures of fast repetitive sixteenth note runs in Omar Thomas's "A Mother of A Revolution!" for concert band. The runs start on throat G, up to Bb (I play it long), D, Eb, and back down. Everything except the open G (w/ Rt hand down) is done with my right hand pinky finger. I don't have the fastest fine motor speed, and this just reduces movement tremendously.

The long Bb on my instrument is just a bit stuffier than the pinch Bb, especially if I add resonance fingerings to the pinch Bb. So I don't use the long Bb for sustained notes. It did come in handy when one arranger inadvertantly wrote a low Eb into his arrangement. Perplexed all the clarinets for a while.

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