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Re: Best trills

Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2021-03-12 23:03

Hi SecondTry. Interesting that on my Bb R13 instrument the G#-A trill suggested sounds reasonably good. So does the A4-B4 trill using the top trill key that you mentioned as sounding also bad. The one I don't care much for is the suggested E-F# trill, where for me that F# is noticeably flat. But I believe the suggestions given are the standard ones, and I'm probably not alone in having used them.

Anyway, generally there are some trill fingerings that produce notes of less quality. Sometimes you can work around issues one way or another (like kdk's suggestion of using the rh index on the lh A key.) For whatever reasons, bad sounding notes for me, including some trill notes, have gradually improved over the years. (Or my hearing is getting worse.) Still, I marvel sometimes to hear recordings of professionals who make "bad" trills sound great. I wonder how much practice they've devoted to trill technique as a separate thing.

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