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Re: G (alto) clarinet - eb forked

Author: buedsma
Date: 2003-07-25 09:09

i managed to get the mp out
It was really stuck ( glued )

Anyway i did visit a turkish music shop
that had the same type of clarinet and yes,
i managed to split my clarinet into 4 pieces + mouthpiece.

The only question left : only when playing with very soft reeds without too much pressure i manage to get a Eb with forked fingering

The lowest Bb forked works oke , regardless of mouthpiece and reed type. But the softer reeds always play better.

The sound they recorded on larkinam gives a good idea about the ugliness of nearly all notes played with the register key.

The low notes sound very beautifull.

I also had to add some corks underneath some keys to avoid the metallic noise.

Other expierences about mp's , reeds , correct tuning and sound quality below and above throat A ??

When i listen to turkish clarinet , they apperently don't go higher then throat A most of the time , probably because of the difficult A-B jump and the fact that soft reeds make this even more difficult .

Other opinions ? Seems like i'm the only turkish clarinet owner in Belgium. Even the turkish shop owner knew less about the instrument then i did.

By the way : FRENCH fries is in fact the national belgian food. You can buy it with mayonaise or ketchup at every corner. Never understood why americans call it french fries. Probably one of the only well-known countries because of "april in paris" , the eifel tower , or was it something else :-) ??

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