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Re: register key

Author: Chris P
Date: 2015-02-27 01:20

If you mean you released the speaker key when playing the upper register D and wanted to slur down a 12th to lower register A (and your speaker key was closing normally), then that's normal for it to remain as a D as slurring down a 12th to the lower register on clarinet is near impossible to do without restarting the lower note by tongueing it.

So play the upper register D and release the speaker key - you'll find it won't automatically drop down a 12th to low A as you're going against the physics of the instrument here.

If your lower register is playing fine and so is your upper register, then there's nothing wrong with your clarinet - it's your technique that you need to have a look at.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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