Interesting... would it actually be easier, with all keys and
therefore "all fingers [....] available
to hit keys "?
As it is I'm still teaching my fingers when to move to make all the
notes faster, and still letting my thumb & little finger learn which
position is which, but most of the fingers are limited to their unique
notes.
If several fingers were available to hit the same key, I feel
instinctively that it would be more confusing, even though I happily do
exactly that on concertinas and other keyboard instruments.
Somehow the woodwind holding position says different things to my hands,
and I expect a particular finger always to produce a particular note.
What would you hold it by, given that touching any key would produce a
note? - you'd need some blank bits to keep your fingers on, and then
have to lift them up and move them to the notes.
More confusion.
I think I'll stick to having holes!
Richard.
On 22/03/2011 21:28, Colin wrote:
Interesting thought but which woodwind instruments don't have at least
6 or 7 open (unkeyed) holes?
All mine have the standard unkeyed holes along with the other keyed ones.
Maybe the large amount of metalwork hides the fact the holes are there
but certainly flutes, clarinets, saxophones, bassoons and oboes have
open holes. Flutes, of course, go a step further in having keys with
holes in them .
As far as I know, there is no member of the woodwind class made
without open holes (discounting some bass instruments which would be
impossible for the fingers to reach maybe).
Colin Hill
----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Boris"
<[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 9:06 PM
Subject: [NSP] Has there ever been an NSP with _all_ keys (no open
holes)?
I was pondering recently, both on the stacatto effect of the keys, the
difficulties in only having two fingers free to hit keys, and also
thinking about whether a person missing a hand could play bagpipes in
general.
A thought occurred to me: have any NSP been made which had every hole
covered by a key? With such a settup, all fingers would be available
to hit keys. I think that's how a lot of modern woodwinds are
made; is
there any reason besides tradition that this is not regularly done on
NSP?
-Matthew
Arlington, Virginia, USA
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