Klarinet Archive - Posting 000321.txt from 1994/02

From: "Roger J. Shilcock" <mlfl@-----.UK>
Subj: PostScript
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 03:57:47 -0500

Dear Martin:
By the time I got your sketch file, it was a bit bigger than 11K - also, it
arrived twice. However, it was more of a last-straw effect than a problem in
itself. I seem to remember seeing in "Clarinet & Saxophone" a while back that
injuries and chronic problems with right thumbs were exceptionally common in
Australia - there seemed to be no explanation of this. Do clarinettists in
Australia start younger than anywhere else? I only get right thumb difficulties
when I have been playing in cramped conditions and/or sharing music, when the
playing angle gets unusual; in fact, the thumb rests on my instruments
wear down to bare metal without producing any ill effects. This would have no
relevance to muscular problems, of course.
Roger Shilcock [MLFL, Oxford}