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RE: How do you make a "krekhs"?

Author: Seamus Kirkpatrick
Date: 2002-07-05 06:31

Coming from an Eastern European perspective you could also try some bagpipe or Irish flute fingering ideas.
Basically the same as above, but instead of pulling off the third finger on the left hand to play the A, pull off the second finger.
It will produce a note of indeterminate pitch but if you're quick enough with it, it will provide an unusual ornamentation.
When you're holding a long note, like an E above the C with all the fingers down and the octave key, just try pulling off any finger then putting it down again really quickly. You get a kind of 'flicking' sound. You can follw that up by quickly putting down and lifting the finger under the note you are playing. In this case fingering a D really briefly.
Irish musicians refer to these ornamentations as 'rolls' usually and a good irish flute book will probably have some diagrams that may explain the technique a little more clearly than I have.
I'm not sure if the technique is within tradition, but it's a great sound.
cheers
Seamus
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