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Re: Left F necessity?

Author: cjwright
Date: 2006-10-15 03:30

When you begin playing in semi-professional groups, you will want the left hand F.

Normal F has several advantages:
1. Forked F sounds different (brighter)
2. Forked F is often sharp
3. Any Scale going down that has F to Eflat you should be playing forked F (any scale with more flats than F)
4. Any scale going up or down which has a dflat, eflat, and f natural you'll want to be using right hand dflat, left hand eflat (switch to right hand eflat in the middle), left hand eflat

Forked F because of it's instability in pitch, and dullness in tone (without the eflat key) or brightness/sharpness in tone/pitch (with the eflat key) will be deemed unacceptable. By college your conductors will be able to know which one you are using.

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