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Re: Rampone clarinet in C fingering

Author: davidjsc
Date: 2024-04-24 19:53

Chris P wrote:

> Any simple/Albert system fingering chart will work as this is a
> basic simple/Albert system.

I found with my Albert C clarinet (sold to me as an Oehler system) that when I started going through the finguring charts for Alberts, it did require a bit of experimenting as there are some variation figurings that may work better or worse on one brand of Albert instrument than another.

On mine, E-flat 4 and F-4 were the trickier ones because they can sometimes be awkward for common notes and the 'standard' fingering didn't work well for tuning. What I ended up doing was going note by note with a tuner and trying the different variations for tuning and ease of use, and then wrote up my own fingering chart. On mine, not using the side key for F or F# (as you suggest) is more in tune than if I used it.

I find playing an Albert clarinet is closer to playing oboe finguring than Boehm figuring, so when I play on an Albert, I try to think I am playing my oboe and it seems to help make the fingering 'think' a lot easier.

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