Klarinet Archive - Posting 000735.txt from 1995/06

From: Lynn Thomas <thomas@-----.ORG>
Subj: Re: Advice to new clarinetist
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 23:04:16 -0400

On Fri, 30 Jun 1995, Bob Kreisa wrote:

> That was not a private teacher, that was a school teacher. And believe
> it or not, he's considered a very good one. He is. It was just to much
> that day.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Abby Kreisa
> bkreisa@-----.edu
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Jun 1995, Lynn Thomas wrote:
>
> > Abby, I would call leaving your lesson "near tears" a negative experience
> > with a teacher. What else can you call it? A teacher who does not
> > notice a student under such pressure is not much of a teacher.
> >
> > Lynn
> >
>
Even so, Abby, no teacher can be good at every instrument, and hence have
problems teaching every instrument - maybe that is why he did not know
how you should play that certain passage. That in itself is a disservice
to the student, but alas, it's all we can do. I do not teach flute as
well as I teach clarinet. I do not teach tuba well at all...but I have
taught it ;) And this may be your problem. If your school teacher is
not a clarinetist, or a reed player of any sort, he will have problems
knowing what to do with a good clarinet student at some point or other.

What does he play, by the way? His major instrument - we all had classes
in every instrument but they only last a couple of months, hardly enough
time to make us "experts." (you don't want to hear me play the brass
instruments, no, no, no...:)

Lynn