Re: Streamlining my thoughts on the clarinet woodwind-diagrams

[Wim van Dommelen]

On 7 Feb 2013, at 23:33 , Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:

> The regular one doesn't, the full-Boehm instrument does.  See e.g.  
> this example:
> http://www.clarinetsdirect.biz/RC-F279670.html
But that also has the low-ees, because it still is a "soprano" it  
sounds higher then the low-ees in the bass-clarinet. The key lay-out  
is similar as the basset-clarinet (which is in A, not B flat).  
Confusing all this is .......

> No, I don't mean "how" as in how does one request the override, I  
> mean, what is your spec for what should appear?
I.m.h.o. what should appear is the common name of the key as e.g. used  
in teaching. Example: trill a' - bes' would involved the left-hand a  
key pressed and with the right hand trilling the second key from above  
on the side. So for this bes-stencile on the left hand it should show  
"A" (or "a") but not in the middle but on the top side, for the right  
hand it should show "Bes" (or "bes", but not "2"). In the stencil this  
bes would be specified as:
        #'((cc . (one))
            (lh . ())
            (rh . ()))

> > Isn't a chicken-and-egg combination? I spoke to my teacher today  
> > and she got the
> > question of a composer "tell me what is possible?" as opposed to  
> > someone writing
> > down something and the player having to find out how to do it. As  
> > the key
> > corrects the lowest f (of a soprano-clarinet), it will probably not
> > used/prescribed. But if some effect, whatever can be done with it,  
> > someone will
> > use it sometime.
> >
> > But it is a little (much) too far, I agee.
>
> Maybe, but it's probably best to get to the point of someone  
> requesting it before it gets implemented.
True.

> > That is not that easy, it is not ly-code, but Scheme code and  
> > tougher (more and
> > more stacked upon another) as I expected. The basic files involved  
> > are together
> > already 3200 lines (some are comments, but 90% is code :-).
>
> !
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Regards,
Wim.