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Author: Eina Kari Rajesh
Date: 2015-02-03 17:28
Hi all,
Excuse my ignorance. Off late I have been reading the book You Can Sing by Carrie & David Grant, where the human voice range has been divided into two distinct areas, The chest voice and The head voice with the bridge or THE BREAKING POINT from F4 to B4, which almost corresponds with the clarinets BREAK REGISTER OR THROAT TONES.
I wonder whether these notes are named as throat tones/break register in clarinet due to its nature (difficulty in singing or voicing) or to the specific attributes of clarinet like the bridge between the chalumea and clarion register. Does this range refered the same irrespective of instruments (Bb, A, Eb clarinets or even other woodwinds) and it's range? Is it the fingerings or the pitch? Knowing this might not help me playing better, but I ask to know the instrument better. Kindly never mind my English.
Regards
EKR
Post Edited (2015-02-03 19:16)
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-02-03 22:08
The clarinet overblows an octave and a fifth, so going from the last note at the top to the next note using 'overblown notes' is referred to as the next register because it is not an octave. The key that facilitates overblowing this 12th is thus known as the register key (or duodecime key). We refer to the fingering point (or point where you jump from short tube to long tube again), not the actual concert pitchs (so it's the same physical place on any clarinet). This point is also called the break which I don't use at all because it makes beginners mistakenly think this is an "insurmountable" hurdle.
The "throat notes" (I believe) get their name from the point on the horn that would be analogous to the "neck of the beast," as far as I know (strictly referring to the fundamental register).
...............Paul Aviles
Post Edited (2015-02-04 06:38)
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Author: Eina Kari Rajesh
Date: 2015-02-04 08:20
Thanks Paul for explaining what is a register. Could you also please clarify, is there any such naming of these few notes between octaves in instruments which overblows an octave like oboe and sax. Is clarinet, among woodwinds, the difficult instrument to play for its odd harmonics and register fingerings (not considering blowing or voicing)?
EKR
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