Klarinet Archive - Posting 000139.txt from 1996/04

From: Bruce Currie <BCurrie101@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Metallurgy?
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 00:33:35 -0500

I haven't actually tried the FHRED device, but one that is similar.
About a year and a half ago I suddenly had an onset of rheumatoid
arthritis. (Never had it in any family members before.) Anyway, I
asked a clarinet repairman in the Chicago area (Rick Sayres) what I
could do, because I couldn't hold my clarinet. He was familiar with
this FHRED thing, but I had to go to Edmund Nielsen Woodwinds
(double reed people) across town to see a brouchure.

At the time I was taking occupational/physical therapy in a local
hospital for my arthritis. I showed them the picture, and they made
a similar apparatus for me (*FREE*). I know the FHRED is more
"professional" and engineered great, but it costs about $140.
Anyway, this helps tremendously taking the weight off my right hand
and you can still move around. But you have to sit. It attaches to
the thumb rest and has a stick-like device that rests on the chair.
I understand another model may be coming out where you can stand.
If you really need it, get it or make one.

>Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 17:14:19 CST
>From: SEAN TALBOT <talb4841@-----.EDU>
>Sender: "Klarinet - Clarinettist's Network"
<KLARINET@-----.BITNET>
>To: Multiple recipients of list KLARINET
<KLARINET@-----.BITNET>
>Subject: Re: Metallurgy?
>
> The only color my thumb turns without a thumbrest is a
nice numb
>purple. If it turns spotted, then I worry.
> While on the topic, I noticed in this issue of The
Clarinet on p.47
>there is an add for Quodlibet's new FHRED, which those who haven't
>seen it looks like some kind of clarinet stand that holds the
clarinet
> while you
>play. It is kind of hard to tell because of the picture how it
wouldn't
>get in the way. Has anyone seen or tried this. The add says that
it
>"Acts Just Like Your Thumb". I don't know about anyone else, but
I know
>my thumb can probably do more everyday than this invention.
>
>Sean Talbot
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Bruce Currie
Lombard, Illinois
BCurrie101@-----.com
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