Author: SecondTry
Date: 2022-12-07 20:43
Hi Jennifer:
I smiled when reading your post given the irony that a player or two, this one included, has been known to take a tad of grease from behind an ear on a finger, and spread it over the two top right pinky keys to facilitate the very slide your discussion hopes to reduce/eliminate.
As you can probably appreciate, the occasional musical notation, especially for players lacking a left pinky Ab/G#/Eb/D# lever, finds the need, or at least the greatest ease for the player to player to slide from one of these top keys to the one immediately below.
For example, in case I've lost you, lets suppose you've been tasked with playing, the notes ![[D#5]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/eb5.gif) , ![[C#5]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/db5.gif) , ![[B4]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/b4.gif) and in rapid succession.
In the absence of a left pinky key, one often takes the by sliding the right pinky down, followed by the with the left pinky, and the , as mandatory, with the right pinky.
One could also do a mid note pinky swap on the or but the prior method has "gravity on our side."
Cheers 
Post Edited (2022-12-07 20:43)
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