In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Owain Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 08.08.2004 19:54 Uhr, Mark D Lew wrote
With strings there'd be a fingering issue, wouldn't there? I don't play, but I seem to recall that if it's G# they like to play it in a certain position with a certain finger, and Ab is a different position with a different finger, even if it's the same note (more or less) on the same string.
Well, if it is tied over we wouldn't change fingers. At least I wouldn't.
Johannes
Even if sightreading? ;)
I get the impression that inability to recognise enharmonic equivalents may not be the only reason that amateur violinists in this country might want to change fingers: some of them tend to use only odd hand positions, and leaving their finger on an enharmonic change effectively moves them from a familiar odd to an unfamiliar even position.
It's difficult to sightread enharmonic equivalents, especially if you don't see a lot of them. There are a couple in the viola part to "My Fair Lady," and I only figured out one of them last night. That said, however, no string player in his right mind would change fingers, as Johannes said, and yes, it might well throw the player into an awkward position, as Mark noted. But this is for sightreading. Those of us who are NOT stuck in odd numbered positions are constantly fingering on the fly, and when we find the most comfortable fingerings we might even write them in! But I was trained not to think in positions but to use the entire fingerboard to enhance the sound by making certain fingering choices. It makes for some fun experimenting.
John
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