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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2014-09-23 03:36
These past 7 years I've dabbled at the high end of my range pretty much every day. The following is intended to use standard "scientific" pitch notation (where the OP's C4 becomes C7).
With practice, the high end gradually gets easier, better, and higher. For me, early on, anything from G6 to C7 were iffy propositions. These days, scales routinely run at decent speed to C7. Pitches up to E7 are reliable, though the scales still slow down in that interval. This is with (almost) any practiceable reed, no teeth. Practice at various dynamics with various articulations.
With a good reed, F and F#7 are still iffy, as are G and G#7, and A7 even more so - I can hit them but not reliably or particularly well. I expect to gradually incorporate these pitches into my usable range as lower pitches have been incorporated.
I play a small cadenza in Miluccio's #2 of 8 Grande Etudes. The cadenza goes to F7 and then C#8, the latter of which seems to require teeth on the reed. Damnably unreliable, but I feel confident I can eventually do it. (I'd like to include this piece "someday" in a solo recital.)
In community band I occasionally have played piccolo or Eb clarinet music on Bb clarinet, including solos in Sousa's Stars & Stripes (goes to Bb6) and in Goldman's Chimes of Liberty (C7). So, you never know when high altissimo might prove handy.
Just keep trying, it can be done, it can be figured out - and it can profit your overall tone production. There isn't much music written for these pitches, so you needn't feel maniacal pressure to pursue them, but scales and improvising just naturally seem to want to go, UP,
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