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Re: Starting Again!

Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2004-12-17 15:11

<<am wondering if there's something I don't know.>>

Ha! I can't imagine that I know *anything* that anyone else doesn't already know -- and better, at that!

It has always been more difficult for me to manage the higher left hand Eb (top space of the staff) than the lower one (bottom line of the staff). In particular, I have had difficulty moving up from, say, the mid-staff B to that higher left hand Eb.

I don't know any "tricks" about how to do it -- but I do find that the more often I do it, the more automatic it becomes. And that's what I meant when I said I am now able to "grab" the l.h. Eb from below -- at least some of the time!

I am also a clarinetist, and perhaps for that reason, the pinky keys on the oboe have not generally presented much difficulty for me, except for this one fingering. Fingerings for the upper octave of the oboe are very similar to the fingerings for the upper register of the clarinet -- except that clarinets normally don't have the l.h. Eb option. One of my high-end clarinets does have it, but I find it very awkward and just don't use it.

Susan

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