Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2014-11-20 18:33
Hi Mr. Krelove:
I'm sorry sir I didn't make this clearer but NO, for what it's worth, I was not initially limiting the changes that could be made to the instrument to merely tone hole size(s) or position.
Your comments about the Patricola I'm aware of thanks. And Mr. Peryagh's comments about the Selmer and Leblanc, while not known to me prior, don't shock me either. But they do lead me to ponder another question regarding why such mechanisms are more the exception than the rule on the instruments of most makers.
I'm going to assume that the cost of adding such features werent' worth the effort when the musician can always
* actuate the second to top right side vent to produce a nicer sounding throat "Bb" on slower passages,
* use harmonic fingering when passages are faster and/or the right hand is committed to return to, or come from notes on the lower joint, making this leap to the previously mentioned side key difficult, or
* simply do the best to make the throat Bb sound nice when only actuated by the pointer and thumb fingers of the left hand, and otherwise incorporated into fast enough passages that the throat Bb's less than lustre sound is concealed by the speed of the note changes.
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