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Re: Selmer Sterling or something else ?

Author: Chris P
Date: 2016-05-03 20:58

I play other instruments with an articulated G# (saxes and oboes), so the articulated C#/G# on clarinet is ideal if you're used to it.

There are some altissimo notes that require the G# key to be open while the RH ring keys are held down, so you'll have to find other fingerings for those notes with clarinets fitted with the articulated C#/G#.

Altissimo Bb is such a note (Sp. Th. xxx C#/G# | xxx F/C) but you can play it using the fingering for upper register C but with the thumb off the thumbhole (Sp. Thumb off xxx|xxx F/C).

You also won't be able to get altissimo F with the full fingering, so you'll have to use the short fingering (Sp. Th. oxx C#/G# | ooo Ab/Eb).

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

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