Kevin Crawford's BCd Ornament

[George]

I asked Kevin Crawford about it after a concert in California a little while after this thread ended. He knew exactly what I was talking about and showed me how he does it on the pen he was using to sign my copy of his CD at the time.

He plays the B
Flicks his index finger off to the side away from the flute
Sounds a C#
Puts down only his middle finger for his C natural (which is how he usually fingers it)
Then goes to the D to finish up

It’s the BCD thing with a little C# between the B & C. I remember finding this conversation very frustrating at the time and gave up on it.

[MTGuru]

So essentially, he's simply cutting the C on the way up: (3B{^c}=CD. Pretty straightforward.

[jemtheflute]

Thanks, George! Works well.
So, it's deliberately slightly "unclean" ( ) fingering - the sort of thing we'd usually work to eliminate, as in playing B cnat d with a C nat cross-fingering cleanly. Instead just be a bit lazy with the top hand fingers....... play a Bc#d run but instead of hitting the D cleanly, all 5 fingers together, stick in your Cnat cross-fingering (whatever it is for the instrument in use) and then fractionally later add the rest of the fingers for middle D. Of course. You can do it the same whether you're playing with a Cnat or a C# in the "pure" run according to key signature.

[MarkP]

I think Kevin mentioned that a good place to get that one off is towards the end of the first part of Cregg's Pipes (bar 7). I think there were four notes in it and he was just popping the first finger on the B. I'd have to try it to recall exactly but it just pops out one way or another.

Edit: ok, you have it while I was thinking

[johnnyalpha]

Thanks so much guys. I'll try it out when I get home!

Also, a trip to the session.org revealed the tune I'd heard it on where it was especially prominent:
Asturian Air (second part, bcd triplets)

It's on the Merry Sisters of Fate album.