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Re: Trill fingerings

Author: Chris P
Date: 2023-01-04 17:26

Just to add an extra trill fingering which I haven't seen in any charts, this is the upper register A#-B (or Bb-B or Bb-Cb) trill I like to use (+ denotes the trilling finger/fingers):

Conservatoire/dual* system: 8ve2 xxo|x+o
* if you primarily use conservatoire fingerings

Thumbplate/dual** system: 8ve2, thumb off thumbplate xxo|++o
** if you primarily use thumbplate fingerings

You will need more support for this trill, especially for the B/Cb as that note is a 3rd harmonic of low E and has a tad more resistance than the standard short fingering of B natural (8ve2 xoo|ooo on all the above systems).

It's a shame it doesn't work in the lower register as I find the whole having to hold the spatula key down to keep the top joint C key closed and trilling with LH2 a pain, compared to flutes, clarinets and saxes where it's one of the easiest trills - xoo|+oo although it's a slightly passable lower register D#-E trill on clarinets as the long fingering for the D#/Eb is too sharp on them. It's one of those trills on oboe you have to think about rather than just do instinctively, especially if you've come to oboe from a Boehm system based woodwind instrument.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

Post Edited (2023-01-05 17:32)

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