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Re: Key Count (Albert)

Author: clarnibass
Date: 2017-09-28 07:41

A key has a pad on it, so usually you can count the pads and that's the number of keys.

For example on a regular Boehm clarinet, the thumb ring is not a key, but the first finger left hand ring key is a key (it has a pad).

This is for the number of keys on clarinet (usually). For communication a lot of times people would refer to almost any "key" as a key e.g. the thumb key.

There are some tricky cases, like double keys e.g. some older saxophone G keys or bass clarinet F/C keys. These instruments are pretty much never referred to by the number of keys anyway.

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