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Author: lenc
Date: 2015-02-27 00:47
please help:
last night something bad happened to my buffet e11. it sounded like the register key was engaged but actually it wasn't. for example when i played a low A and then a high D and slid my thumb down to release the register key to get low A, it still gave a high D sound for maybe 1 second.
it this going to be an expensive repair?
thanks for your help!
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2015-02-27 01:12
might as well be that the adjustment screw on the throat Ab key is too much "in", not allowing the Ab pad to completely close. This has the same effect as pressing the thumb register key.
And no, it should be a quick fix unless something nastier such as a crack in the wood is the real culprit.
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Ben
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2015-02-27 01:20
If you mean you released the speaker key when playing the upper register D and wanted to slur down a 12th to lower register A (and your speaker key was closing normally), then that's normal for it to remain as a D as slurring down a 12th to the lower register on clarinet is near impossible to do without restarting the lower note by tongueing it.
So play the upper register D and release the speaker key - you'll find it won't automatically drop down a 12th to low A as you're going against the physics of the instrument here.
If your lower register is playing fine and so is your upper register, then there's nothing wrong with your clarinet - it's your technique that you need to have a look at.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-02-27 02:16
lenc: would you please clarrify.
It's not my intent to be pedantic and correct a mistake?? in your description just for the sake of noting an error, but rather, to appreciate what you are talking about so as to best formulate cause and solution.
When you speak of the low "A," are you referring to the lowest "A" a Bb soprano clarinet can reach (3 fingers down on the left hand, 2 on the right, without the register key depressed) or perhaps are you talking about the throat tone "A" played with the left hand's pointer finger and no register key depressed?
You see, the "D above" I think you refer to, with the register key actuated, and 3 fingers down on each hand wouldn't sound when you take your finger off the register key AND finger a low "A." Instead, if the clarinet, consistent with Chris' description of its tendency to remain in the upper register (the clarion) even when the register key is close, has had its fingerings switch to low "A," then we would expect the 12th above, also known as the "E" near the top of the treble cleff staff, to voice, not the "D" a whole step below.
For argument sake you could be talking about differences between the middle (clarion) and upper (altissimo) registers (although I don't think so), rather that differences between the low (chalameau) and middle (clarion) registers.
: - )
Post Edited (2015-02-27 02:25)
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Author: lenc
Date: 2015-03-01 23:45
Thank you so much for you posts tictactux, Chris P & WhitePlainsDave.
I'm so I'm so embarrassed that I didn't describe my problem correctly. I meant
the chalumeau G and the clarion D :-(
To WhitePlainsDave - No I`m not talking about altissimo LOL. I might get there in the year 2025 :-)
Thanks again!
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-03-01 23:57
Leaping DOWN to the lower register can be a little tricky at first. It helps to re-articulate the lower note.
If you have in mind that you are using more air (and a wee bit more embouchure control) to go UP to the clarion register, you then need to remember to use LESS air (and embouchure) as you go back down.
.................Paul Aviles
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Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-03-02 00:13
Hi lenc:
If the problem is unique to being unable to voice only the chalumeau G and the clarion D, we may be looking at something different than described.
But if similar issues arise between, say, the chalumeau A and the clarion E, and the chalumeau Bb and the clarion F, Chris P's and Paul's description of their being a need to break between the two notes, as pretty much just a part of how our "black stick" works, seems applicable.
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2015-03-02 23:20
You do have to "break" the voicing in your throat when jumping down several octaves. You need to go from something like a Hee to a Awh in your throat. Like a donky sound. :-) Sometimes having to loosen the embouchure a bit too. I know that's not a very scientific explantion but if you can figure out what I mean it works.
ESP eddiesclarinet.com
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