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Re: Historical fingerings

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2019-02-04 03:44

Do you believe that the performances by Widmann and Van Wauwe sound musically convincing and professional or not? If you have a positive view of them, there is no reason not to emulate what they are doing. If on the other hand you feel that making the two notes speak more evenly as they do on a modern Boehm clarinet sounds better then that should be your choice. Listeners to music do not care what you have to do on the instrument to make the notes come out; they only care about what their ears hear. So do what sounds best to you and what you have reason to believe will sound best to them. If trying to incorporate some traditional device makes the music sound halting, and unconvincingly clumsy, then don't do it. The sound of the result is everything in music, not the mechanical means to achieve it or the history of how it was once achieved.

Post Edited (2019-02-04 07:57)

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