Author: Jarmo Hyvakko
Date: 2019-12-15 21:45
Don't bend keys!!
Two reasons: the cork in the crows foot under the rh e-b key is either too thick or thin. Can be checked with cigarette paper. Press rh e-b key lightly down with cigarette paper under either pad to test if the pad grips the paper equally.
Other reason, and very obvious one, because your rh fingering works, is that the e-b pad leaks. Left hand key has such a long shaft, that it doesn't press the key as strongly as the right hand key. Go to a GOOD repairsman. Getting the crows foot plus nonleaking e-b pad is the most difficult thing in french clarinet key adjustment.
Jarmo Hyvakko, Principal Clarinet, Tampere Philharmonic, Finland
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