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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-02-09 14:50
I haven't learned to use these yet, but here's a couple of excerpts from Larry Guy's <B><I>Intonation Training for Clarinetists</B></I>:
<blockquote>"To lower the pitch of A, Bb, and B at pp, half-hole or quarter hole with the third or first finger as in these illustrations"</blockquote>
The illustrations show adding the third or <i>second</i> (not first finger) of the hole below the closed tone hole.
Another excerpt:
<blockquote>"The altissimo register: Usually tends to be sharp. This can be helped by one of the following: 1) half holing left index finger and/or 2) experimenting with the right hand little finger keys.
In general, half-hole the index finger for all notes above high C and see how well it works on your clarinet. Half-holing is not only good for p and pp attacks, but can be used in a more general fashion."</blockquote>
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Author: rick2
Date: 1999-02-09 15:02
Using anything other than the left ring finger actuates a ring key. Is it possible that it's actually closing the pad associated with the ring keys is what flattens the note and not the half-holing perse?
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-02-09 15:28
rick2 wrote:
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<br>Using anything other than the left ring finger actuates a ring key. Is it possible that it's actually closing the pad associated with the ring keys is what flattens the note and not the half-holing perse?
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<br><b>Low</b> A, Bb, and B. I should have been more specific. Right hand holes.
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Author: Lelia
Date: 1999-02-09 17:02
Here's another half-hole technique for altissimo, although it will only work for people with thin fingers: point the thumb and stick it *into* the thumb ring and into the hole as far as possible (which is not very far -- you're bending the thumb barely into the opening) while still leaving a big air leak over the top of the hole. I can't get this technique to work on every note. It won't work for me on notes that require raising my LH index finger and it's "iffy" at best elsewhere, but seems worth working on, because where it does work, it pops the note a 12th above what I'm fingering in the clarino. I don't know whether there's an authority on this subject, but it's the conventional technique for the second octaveon recorder (equivalent of clarino, except the pitch goes up an octave instead of a 12th; a recorder has no register key) and works on clarinet, too.
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Author: Gary Van Cott
Date: 1999-02-09 20:53
I have this book for sale on my web site. Also Guy's book on reeds.
http://www.vcisinc.com/
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-02-09 20:56
Gary Van Cott wrote:
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I have this book for sale on my web site. Also Guy's book on reeds.
http://www.vcisinc.com/
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I personally liked both books for the information in them - not the printing - they're cheaply made spiral bound books.
I did get them as comp items, though, so keep that in mind.
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Author: rick2
Date: 1999-02-10 00:51
A lot of good information is in poor binding. The Brand repair manual is bound in similar fashion.
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Author: George Kidder
Date: 1999-02-10 01:57
Spiral binding seems to me completely appropriate for a reference manual that will be left open to read as you work. That way it will STAY open. The spiral binding is the least of the problems with the Brand manual reprint. (Like some sections seem to be missing which are referred to in the text.)
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