Asking help with trill flat
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On a standard instrument, you would finger the C with one little finger, then trill the Db (C#) with the other. On an Albert, I don't think that the mechanism allows this one, but it's been a while since I've played an Albert. On an Oehler, the Patent C# mechanism should allow you to finger the C with the right hand, and trill to the Db (C#) with the left.
This is all from memory, by the way. I've put all my horns in storage while we prep our house for sale, this since my soft palate problem prevents me from playing them. I had a four hour band job last night, and played the EWI and synthesizer for all of it. It doesn't sound as good (and the hair-trigger nature of the four octave keys is frustrating in the extreme), but I tried to blow one number (Twist And Shout, where the bari part is pretty essential, and couldn't even get the thing to speak without the palate leaking like a sieve.
Tomorrow is the date with the speech therapist...
This is all from memory, by the way. I've put all my horns in storage while we prep our house for sale, this since my soft palate problem prevents me from playing them. I had a four hour band job last night, and played the EWI and synthesizer for all of it. It doesn't sound as good (and the hair-trigger nature of the four octave keys is frustrating in the extreme), but I tried to blow one number (Twist And Shout, where the bari part is pretty essential, and couldn't even get the thing to speak without the palate leaking like a sieve.
Tomorrow is the date with the speech therapist...
He doesn't even say he's playing the clarinet, but in any case your memory's playing up on you. This trill is much the same on any german system as on boehm. RH C natural and trill with LH C# key. It doesn't need the patent C#; that just allows you to play C# with the 'B' key alone i.e. without the RH C key.
I don't think the he was looking for fingerings though, just wanted to know what the flat above the "tr" means.