Re: Compound slur: thinning at inflection points

[David Kastrup]

Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:

> On 04.01.2017 00:29, Urs Liska wrote:
>> I copied it from the 2010 Henle edition. Actually the trigger to do
>> finally enter this was to see that Henle's slurs suffer from the
>> same shortcoming as my compound slurs: becoming so thin at the
>> inflection point(s).
>
> Now if it were a 1985 Henle edition I’d say at once: if Henle does it,
> it must be a good idea…

Try cutting an inflection in a metal plate with a slur chisel at some
point of time.  It's not a good idea as much as quite hard to avoid.  So
I don't see much of an incentive to slavishly copy it.

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David Kastrup