Author: AndrewHP
Date: 2022-09-06 02:12
Sure, I completely agree, it stretches credibility to think that there's something unusually good about my old A clarinet. Still, I think Hunter and Ed must be right about having gotten a free blowing/low resistance A and having adapted to that. I was working through this fingering chart:
https://www.wfg.woodwind.org/clarinet/cl_alt_4.html
On my A I am able to play the notes G#/Ab6 through B#6/C7 in various fingerings, speaking immediately, sustained, and in tune with a tuner. This is with no fancy equipment by the way, stock barrel and bell, with the same reeds and Morgan mouthpiece (thank you Ed Palanker). My family members didn't even ask me to stop, and they had no reason to tolerate assault of their hearing. On my Bb and those other few Bbs I tried, I can barely get to altissimo G without risking a squeek, and biting.
I did follow the excellent suggestions here and I'll keep working through them. I'm sure that the people at Meridian Winds would have fixed any mechanical problems, and besides, I have the same problem on a brand new Bb R13.
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