Klarinet Archive - Posting 000001.txt from 1996/05

From: Jeremy Alexander Yager <jayager@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Frustration and Starting Over
Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 01:43:57 -0400

On Apr 30, 11:32pm, Greg Baker wrote:
> Subject: Re: Frustration and Starting Over

On air support:

Having been almost exclusively a bass clarinet player until my junior
year in HS, I found that when I started Bb clarinet again that the
air power I had built up as a bass player helped my clarinet playing
a great deal both in articulation and in tone quality and clarity.

Now after having gotten into distance-running shape *again* this
semester (I ran cross country in HS) I find that, once again, my
clarinet playing has improved markedly with the (re)introduction of
the extra chest power into the equation.

In my experience w/ professional wind players, it seems that a great
deal of them are often in great physical shape--my band director and
former clarinet teacher are both distance runners (and married now
*grin*) and my current clarinet teacher was(is?) a swimmer. Is this
a general thing or just a statistical anomaly?

Recovering from exams,
Jeremy A Yager

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