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Re: register key

Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-02-27 02:16

lenc: would you please clarrify.

It's not my intent to be pedantic and correct a mistake?? in your description just for the sake of noting an error, but rather, to appreciate what you are talking about so as to best formulate cause and solution.

When you speak of the low "A," are you referring to the lowest "A" a Bb soprano clarinet can reach (3 fingers down on the left hand, 2 on the right, without the register key depressed) or perhaps are you talking about the throat tone "A" played with the left hand's pointer finger and no register key depressed?

You see, the "D above" I think you refer to, with the register key actuated, and 3 fingers down on each hand wouldn't sound when you take your finger off the register key AND finger a low "A." Instead, if the clarinet, consistent with Chris' description of its tendency to remain in the upper register (the clarion) even when the register key is close, has had its fingerings switch to low "A," then we would expect the 12th above, also known as the "E" near the top of the treble cleff staff, to voice, not the "D" a whole step below.

For argument sake you could be talking about differences between the middle (clarion) and upper (altissimo) registers (although I don't think so), rather that differences between the low (chalameau) and middle (clarion) registers.

: - )

Post Edited (2015-02-27 02:25)

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