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Re: Short fingering

Author: oboeblank
Date: 2007-12-07 03:51

The third octave fingerings are based on overblown fifths. High C# is similar to top line F#, high D is similar to G and so on. Those fingerings are acceptable and I don't think that they are the "normal" fingerings or first fingerings you will encounter on a fingering chart but they obviously work becuase of the overblown fifth.
Sometimes those fingerings are a little wild in intonation or are unreliable in some instances so that is why they are not always taught, but in a pinch they are amazing to know. For instance the short E flat fingering: half hole, 2, 3 and left A flat is great in the last movement of the Poulenc trio: D flat major, 6 sixteenth notes CDEDCBA at a ridiculous tempo. Although a purist would say that you should use "real" fingerings, sometimes you just can't.
FYI, here is North America the C# fingering most often taught is:
2,3/ 1 and C key. Our D is: half hole, 2,3/ (2) C key-the (2) is used if the D is sharp but that can be fixed by adjusting the closure with the screw on the C key arm.

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