Author: Loliver
Date: 2012-05-06 22:08
Nice idea- the F/F# and B/Bb resemble clarinet fingerings, but...
the instrument would have to be straight bore at this point, and presumably all the way down, or else all the keys would have to be crushed up together.
And, somewhat controversially, the C/C alternate would be much better with a back key, like the clarinet or Thumbplate/Dual system oboe. The same with the Bb fingerings. If using the clarinet/thumbplate style, there is no 'finger switching', i.e no one finger down+next finger up to change a note one step, which always feels a bit odd.
As an aside, does anyone else feel that the right hand little finger keys are, well, wrong? On every other instrument, the nearer the finger to the mouth, the higher the note it produces, while the oboe, and by extension Cor Anglais, D'amore and Bass, all feel kind of, well, a bodge job. It feels as if the C and Eb keys are the wrong way round.
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