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Problems with C#5

Author: ThatPerfectReed  Date:   2014-02-16 04:05 Buffet R13, Vandoren B45 Mouthpiece, Vandoren V12 3.5 reeds. The notes C#5/Db5 are giving me problems. Sometimes when playing passages these notes just doen't voice: I want to stay particularly when played with the left pinky--so maybe, just maybe I am moving the clarinet to my left ever so little when playing it, but I am not a finger slammer. This problem is more likely when going from a more distant note to C#5 / Db5 as opposed to getting to it from a nearby or . It happens more with synthetic reeds than cane. Sometimes I can literally take the clarinet out of my mouth, stick it immediately back in without moving my fingers, and still have a problem with this note, but not if I move either pinky off this key, and stick it on the C5 / F3 / or B4 / E3 / keys (left or right pinky). My fingers are clearly not opening things like chromatic levers that they shouldn't be. Visual inspection, not to mention the fact that I'd fail on the aforementioned notes that have to travel further down the barrel suggest this. Sticking the upper and lower joints, connected, with the bottom of the bottom joint against an uncovered thigh (so it makes a seal), fingering a / with either pinky, and sucking in or out from the top of the top joint assures me my clarinet seals correctly. It's not likely a pad problem. Where it, F#3/Gb3 would presumably given me problems too: it doesn't. The pad for the C5 / F3 / key sits properly covering the hole no more or less so than when the C5 / F3 / key is actuated, than when the C#5 / F#3 / key is actuated (either pinky). Still more, as mentioned one could assume that B3 / F4 / would have a problem where this aforementioned pad not closing off the hole correctly (as opposed to the prior scenario where finger placement is the culprit). Any ideas as to what might be causing this, or how to solve it? I use to consider C5 , C#5 , D#5 , and F5 some of my best notes. I really have to get my hands on another clarinet for a while to see if I reproduce this problem on somebody else's instrument, with my mouthpiece/reed/ligature. Thanks.

Topics	Author	Date
Problems with C#5	ThatPerfectReed	2014-02-16 04:05
Re: Problems with C#5  new	Tony F	2014-02-16 11:35
Re: Problems with C#5  new	kdk	2014-02-16 20:26
Re: Problems with C#5  new	ThatPerfectReed	2014-02-16 22:49
Re: Problems with C#5  new	ThatPerfectReed	2014-02-16 18:09
Re: Problems with C#5  new	ThatPerfectReed	2014-02-16 18:19
Re: Problems with C#5  new	kdk	2014-02-17 05:19
Re: Problems with C#5  new	ThatPerfectReed	2014-02-17 06:00

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