 The Fingering Forum
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Author: Jonas W
Date: 1999-11-24 10:10
Are you guys blowing in a special way when playing /w altissimo fingerings?
A guy told me you wouldnīt have to, but my teacher said you would. Anyway, he did not told me what special kind of thing that would be.
I tried out his fingerings, something by a french music professor. I managed to take a G3, but nothing else...
Now that Iīve changed my horn I donīt get it anymore.
I now use a Yanagisawa A-991, with a Rosseau JDX 5 mouthpiece and Vandoren V16 reeds #3. Iīve been playing for 4,5 years.
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Author: Eoin
Date: 1999-11-25 07:50
What instrument are you talking about? Is it sax or clarinet?
In the clarinet, you should be able to use the same embouchure for really high notes as for low ones, but only with lots of practise. A loose embouchure which a beginner produces will get the only the lower notes. As the muscles strengthen in you cheeks and lips, you should be able to go higher. This does not mean that you grip the reed tighter. It means you hold you lips firmer. Eventually you should be able to play from bottom note to top note without changing your embouchure.
Eoin
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Author: Rene
Date: 1999-11-27 00:53
stupid question...but what is altissimo?
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Author: Eoin
Date: 1999-11-27 09:20
The word "Altissimo" means different things to different people. Officially it means "very high".
In the normal usage, the clarinet has three registers, the chalumeau for the low notes up to throat Bb, the clarino or clarion for the medium notes from B up to C and octave higher and the altissimo for notes above this, starting at C#. There is no upper limit to the altissimo.
Some people use the term high register for the notes immediately above the clarino, and start the altissimo at G4, that is the 4th G that you can play.
Saxophone players also use the term altissimo for something similar, but I don't play sax so I don't know exactly what they mean by it.
Eoin
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Author: Rene
Date: 1999-12-01 22:05
Thanks for explaining that.
-Rene
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Author: Ryan Tobin
Date: 2000-01-18 18:22
For sax players, altissimo means notes that are higher than
F#3 (or G3 if the sax has an F# key). There are two main differences between altissimo and "regular" notes:
- Fingering for Altissimo notes are very different than for regular notes. They often involved forked fingerings (pressing keys with the first and third fingers but not the second) and they usually seem out of order.
- Playing altissimo notes usually requires using overtones, which means you need a slightly different embouchure.
Hope this helps
rt
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Author: Angela
Date: 2000-01-30 20:03
Yeah, everyone says that altissimo on the sax requires a "slightly different embouchure," but what IS that "slightly different embouchure?"
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Author: Kohei
Date: 2000-08-04 03:31
Brass players know that the lip flexibility for the higher harmonics is really the control of the back of the tongue.
Different embouchure for sax-altissimo is really different shaping of oral cavity by using tongue larynx, vocal code etc.
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