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Re: Pedals:'Where it matters

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Subject: Re: Pedals:'Where it matters
From: Dafydd y garreg wen <mavnw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 14:44:40 +0100 (BST)
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> " a relatively low Pedal F on a pause note sustained with the use of the
> Double Pedal another octave below (care of Dean Morley)." "....class...."
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> Well said Lawrence!
> Appart from Mr Morley expansive talents, is that note technically possible 
> to reproduce by the rest of us mortals?  Care to suggest a suitable
>fingering? (of double octave notes below pedal C)
> 
> John F

There's some confusion about what these words actually mean here, I think.
Lawrence, by "a relatively low pedal F", do you mean the F three leger
lines below the treble clef or the one below that? Similarly John, by
double octave do you mean the octave from pedal C downwards, or the one
below that? When I say pedal, I mean the octave from pedal C downwards;
notes from C# up to F above pedal C are just "low" (e.g. Low F, reserving
pedal F for the octave below. Another octave is a double pedal, etc..).
This seems to be a sensible convention.
Ordinary pedal notes are fingered as for the octave above. Double pedals
aren't actually proper notes on the instrument - the air inside forms only
half a wave, or something like that (they don't sound very nice). You can
bend these a fair amount, but can be struck easiest if you finger as for
some interval (near an octave) higher. This interval depends on your
individual instrument; for example, on my Bass Trombone, I can play these
with the slide as for an octave higher, but others find that it's a major
seventh, or something else close.

Dave Taylor

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