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Re: One and one fingering

Author: ThatPerfectReed
Date: 2014-04-24 07:10

Karl's point notwithstanding and to elaborate on Steven's, if it's a [D#4]

you wish to play with the 1 and 1 fingering, and you are not having success, you should rule out misaligned keys being a possible problem as follows.

1) Press down the tone hole key for the left pointer finger. See the key go down.

2) Now, keeping this finger down, press down on the tone hole key for the right pointer finger.

3) Now, keeping the right hand pointer finger down, slowly release the left and observe if the key comes up a little, or stays where it is. If it comes up a bit, these mechanism and keys Steve described may require adjusting by someone in the know on this.

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Also, make sure that when the right hand pointer, middle, and/or ring fingers go down on their respective tone holes, that the pad covering the hole above the right hand pointer finger seals. A way you can test the overall seal of the instrument is by putting together the upper and lower joints only, sticking the open end of the bottom joint against, say, an unclothed thigh, and your mouth at the top open end, and putting all the finger down as if making the clarinet's [E3]