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 Ab / Eb key
Author: mmatisoff 
Date:   2016-03-31 23:47

Is there a method book or anything else that shows me how to use the Ab/Eb key on the Opus? I've search the web, but no luck.

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 Re: Ab / Eb key
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2016-03-31 23:48

No - you just have to work out where and when to use it to suit you.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

The opinions I express are my own.

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 Re: Ab / Eb key
Author: Caroline Smale 
Date:   2016-04-01 01:42

You don't need a method book for that - it's use becomes obvious if you can't get to the RH key.
However to gain facility just practise all your scales that use Ab/Eb and also your chromatical scales using both fingerings alternately.

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 Re: Ab / Eb key
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2016-04-01 02:37

If you've taken (upper register) C in the right hand and an Eb follows it, then you can use the LH Ab/Eb lever for it provided the next note isn't an Ab above it - although you can always use the xxo|xxo fingering for that note.

In the Saint-Saens sonata there's a passage in the upper register with Eb-Db-Ab-Gb which is where you can use the H Ab/Eb to avoid sliding from Eb to Db with the RH pinky.

I use the LH Ab/Eb a fair bit - the upper C-Eb in the upward diminished arpeggio run in 'Moonlight Serenade', the D-Eb trill following a C in the opening solo in 'Rhapsody in Blue', the C-Eb in the Eb clarinet solo in Mahler 1, ... there are loads of opportunities to use it, you will find them. I also wish saxes were fitted with a LH Eb key (and modern saxes had a RH C-D trill).

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

The opinions I express are my own.

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 Re: Ab / Eb key
Author: kdk 
Date:   2016-04-01 02:39

I need to confess to a heresy. I have a C clarinet with a LH Ab/Eb on it. I took the key off. I've spent so long playing without it that it seemed to be in my way. I had more trouble finding the other three LH lever keys. And since I don't have the extra key on my other clarinets, I had to think too much for the one instrument to make its being there worthwhile.

Forgive me, for I have sinned.

Karl

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 Re: Ab / Eb key
Author: Caroline Smale 
Date:   2016-04-01 02:43

I have used the xxo / xxo Ab when needed on my Leblanc LLs where it gives a very good note, however on many/most other makes I have played this fingering has ranged from weak/stuffy to almost non-existant Ab.



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