Re: Streamlining my thoughts on the clarinet woodwind-diagrams

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 02/07/2013 02:26 PM, Wim van Dommelen wrote:
> clarinet-family --> clarinet (what we have now, but without the "hole")

"hole" .... ?  I guess you mean the extra touchpiece on the LH 1st finger?

Ideally you'd like to have some backwards compatibility, so I suggest keeping 
"clarinet" for the base stencil.

>      - clarinet --> clarinet-with-left-low-gis (obviously adds the left-hand
> low-gis key)

Call it clarinet-lh-gis.

>          - clarinet-with-left-low-gis --> bass-clarinet (adds the "hole" and
> right low-ees)

I'd use clarinet-full-boehm as the name for the clarinet with low ees, and make 
bass-clarinet an alias for that (or else, bass-clarinet is the full-boehm 
instrument plus the "hole").

>              - bass-clarinet --> low-bass-clarinet (adds left low-d, right
> low-d, left low-d, thumb low-c and thumb low-cis)

I'd call it bass-clarinet-low-c.

>                  - low-bass-clarinet --> low-bass-clarinet-BC-Prestige (adds
> thumb low-d)
>
>                  - low-bass-clarinet --> low-bass-clarinet-S-Privilege (adds
> thumb low-ees)

I wouldn't bother with the "low" here. :-)

> The "clarinet-with-low-gis", "bass-clarinet" and "low-bass-clarinet" will then
> be "intermediate" stencils, but otherwise complete and callable from the
> outside, which is fine for example for writing down a specific thing in the high
> registers or a special effect in a general fashion. The generic stencil for the
> bass-clarinet" will suit the Buffet Crampon and Selmer current top-models to
> low-ees and will do for specific notations in the high register for all of them.
> All the key variations are in the low range as far as I know.

Question: how do you translate the bass clarinet diagrams into key-name 
diagrams?

> More variations can be done, e.g. one could add: "clarinet-with-left-low-gis -->
> clarinet-BC-Tosca" specifying the special F correction key for the right little
> finger. etc.

Yes, but that seems to be taking it a little far.  It's difficult to imagine a 
situation where a composer would want to specify such a key, because its 
existence and practical effect cannot be relied upon.

> If really needed it should be possible to insert an older or newer
> system also. The problem is that all the really usable variations are typically
> brand/model variations, I'm struggling with the naming of it.

This may be handled better by documentation describing how to create your own 
custom diagram, rather than trying to support many.