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Author: Tom H
Date: 2020-05-20 04:48
I've managed to get a high double Eb, though need a good reed and it's still spotty. Double D is pretty solid. I have fingering a chart that goes up to A above those. Can anyone here play that A? How high can you go? How high can you go comfortably?
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Author: clarinetist04
Date: 2020-05-20 07:11
Reliably - the D# above super C, that's the highest I've ever seen actually written into music (Miguel del Aguila's Concerto). Seemed like a good place to stop.
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Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2020-05-20 07:50
Funny Alan! That made my day!
Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces
Yamaha Artist 2015
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2020-05-20 10:23
Hi Tom. To avoid misunderstanding, it's best to use the letter/number designations based on the C4 shown to the right of the Clarinet BBoard logo. Probably you refer D7 and Eb7. The last time I looked, the fingering chart from this woodwind.org site went to A7.
Current setup, regular embouchure, decent sound and facility, chromatic to G#7.
Different mouthpiece, slightly modified embouchure, less decent and reliable, to C8.
Another mouthpiece, teeth on reed, experimental, to E8.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2020-05-20 11:40
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Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2020-05-20 12:21
With a good reed comfortably up to an octave above altissimo F (octave above the opening F in Weber 2nd).
Peter Cigleris
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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2020-05-20 18:10
hans wrote:
> With or without teeth on the reed?
That makes my teeth hurt just to think about it. Although, I suspect E3 with my teeth on the reed would be worse.
"I'd -- be -- equally as willing for a dentist to be drilling...." (My Fair Lady)
Karl
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Author: johng ★2017
Date: 2020-05-20 19:50
My highest note is so high that only dogs can hear it, and just barely. I can break windows 3 miles away and NASA complains that the space station computers start to laugh.
John Gibson, Founder of JB Linear Music, www.music4woodwinds.com
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2020-05-20 20:27
johng wrote:
> My highest note is so high that only dogs can hear it
Speaking of dog whistles, and yes, I know it's a clarinet BBoard:
Back in my ill-begotten youth I was a John Mayall fan (Ok, I still am). On his "Turning Point" album the English saxophonist Johnny Almond plays sax. There's a note in the song California that goes up a bit - he slides a tiny bit into it but it's in tune and fat for a high note - and live at the Fillmore East - not shrill or screechy. I remember none of my buddies could ever hit it reliably or make it sound other than an accidental screech.
Listen starting at around 2:50 for the buildup, the note comes at around 3:17 to 3:24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcqZlFMUYQ
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2020-05-20 21:22
Without teeth on the reed. There is however a little adjustment of the lip forward. crossing from altisimo C to C#
Peter Cigleris
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Author: Tom H
Date: 2020-05-20 22:03
Some of you guys are higher than me (no pun on Canadian Cannibus). Does C8 mean an 2 octaves above C which is 2 lines above staff (one above the end of Artie Shaw Concerto)?
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Author: Slowoldman
Date: 2020-05-20 22:26
If I didn't know this was the Clarinet BBoard, I would think I've accidentally wandered into a trumpet players' convention!
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Author: Tom H
Date: 2020-05-21 01:07
Thanks Philip. I don't even have a fingering chart for that. Highest mine goes is A and it asks for people to submit one for Bb. Do you know of any place to google to get a chart that high?
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tomheimer.ampbk.com/ Sheet Music Plus item A0.1001315, Musicnotes product no. MB0000649.
Boreal Ballad for unaccompanied clarinet-Sheet Music Plus item A0.1001314.
Musicnotes product no. MNO287475
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2020-05-21 02:03
Tom - Your chart sounds like the one on woodwind.org. That's the one I started with. I've modified some of their fingerings and made up my own to C#8. Jason Alder has published a fingering chart for bass clarinet going to E8, five full octaves.
https://www.facebook.com/jasonaldermusic/videos/1151681245188284/
Mouthpieces can limit the high end range. Some of my better sounding mouthpieces balk at playing above F7 or G7. If you add teeth to reed you can go further, but even then the mouthpiece can limit you. With a given setup, my A clarinet seems able to add a half-step or a step above what the Bb can reach, i.e. the same acoustic pitch, so again, it seems the mouthpiece is a limiting factor.
My current mouthpiece, a Behn Prescott, tops out at G7 pretty reliably. I haven't been practicing higher since I took off my Moba L5 last year, which was pretty good to C8 without teeth, but fingerings to C#8 could be recovered (my memory isn't sure about B7 without trying it.)
One day about 3 years ago, probably using a M13 Lyre with teeth, I found my way to E8 and always intended to keep after that, but thus far have not. Presumably those fingerings could be recovered as well. At the time, higher seemed doable.
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Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2020-05-21 06:35
rmk54 Thanks!
That's amazing. Wow! Who need an Eb clarinet when you can do this! This is nuts!
Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces
Yamaha Artist 2015
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Author: gatto
Date: 2020-05-21 16:29
Impressing video.
By the way: it seems that Mate Bekavac has changed from Boehm to Oehler? And what could be the reason?
In the video he plays on Boehm (apparently Buffet Prestige or Festival), but on his own website he presents himself with a German clarinet.
I like his recording of Weinberg's 4th Chamber Symphony Op. 153 with the Kremerata Baltica.
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Author: Tom H
Date: 2020-05-22 04:43
Yes, great video. Seeing stuff like that just makes you throw up your hands.
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tomheimer.ampbk.com/ Sheet Music Plus item A0.1001315, Musicnotes product no. MB0000649.
Boreal Ballad for unaccompanied clarinet-Sheet Music Plus item A0.1001314.
Musicnotes product no. MNO287475
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Author: JTJC
Date: 2020-05-22 14:59
Like Tom I can get the D# above Super C, no teeth. I feel there’s more to come and I could go further but it’s finding fingerings that, I think, is holding me back. Main reason I want to go higher is to make the lower notes, to C7, easier.
Can anyone suggest fingerings (Alder aside) that can be used to take me smoothly, at reasonable speed and chromatically from, say, Bb6 upwards beyond C7 to wherever on soprano clarinet? I’m aware not all instruments respond the same on these higher notes but any tried, tested and working fingerings would be a good starting point.
Thanks,
John
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Author: Tom H
Date: 2020-05-23 01:06
I've been fooling around a while with this stuff. That Eb above C7 that I can get I can only do with my Legere #2 reed. With my Vandoren 2.5s my limit is C7. So I figure it has mostly to do with mouthpiece and reed. Maybe some of those high fingerings work better on certain clarinets than on others. For some of those notes there are an awful lot of suggested fingerings.
The Most Advanced Clarinet Book--
tomheimer.ampbk.com/ Sheet Music Plus item A0.1001315, Musicnotes product no. MB0000649.
Boreal Ballad for unaccompanied clarinet-Sheet Music Plus item A0.1001314.
Musicnotes product no. MNO287475
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Author: EbClarinet
Date: 2020-05-24 23:53
On my new instrument, I can comfortably get to the C# a half step above super C w/o biting.
I can only get to the altissimo G# in Eb clarinet and C clarinet. I've heard there's a high A in the eefer part in a Spanish tune.
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