Klarinet Archive - Posting 000559.txt from 1996/08

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fredj@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Buncha Qs
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:52:07 -0400

Patrick,
I don't think the price is going to be much better, given the
exchange rate right now, but the selection might be better than any store
except maybe Weiner's of the Buffet factory on Long Island. As for
Rossini, I like De Peyer's old recording (despite the tone) and Stoltzman
does a good, if idiosynchratic, job with it.
I usually tell parents to start their little ones on a recorder
or even a song-flute (a pre-recorder instrument developed for school
progrtams). I wait till the child is actually big enoug to hold the thing
before starting them out. There are some people who use eefers to start
little ones off but I'm not
sure that's great because when you finally switch up to the standard size
the student basically has to relearn everything including embouchure! As
for a plateau instrument, DON'T!!!!!!!!!!!! They are miserably stuffy, heavy
(too much metal), unresponsive instruments. A perfect example of a good idea
which doesn't work in practice.

Fred Jacobowitz
Clarinet/Sax Instructor, Peabody Preparatory

On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Patrick Kwan wrote:

> I'm planning to go to Paris in mid-April, I'm wondering if it will be cheaper
> if I buy my Buffet clarinet there. Anybody have a clue?
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> Need recommendation for recordings of Introduction, Theme, and Variations by
> Rossini, Osborne's Rhapsody, and Solo de Concours by Messager. Prefer it to
> be in one CD. I already have Rossini's but I scratched it right where
> Maggiore starts.
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> How young is too young to learn to play the clarinet? My cousin's going to be
> 4, I wonder if she's too young or just about okay to start learning. I think
> I'll get her either an Eb clarinet or one of Leblanc's plateau (closed holes)
> Bb clarinets. Well, I'm not getting it, her parents are!
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> Why does David Glazer sound so familiar? Who is he? He's the editor for my
> version of Intro.......... by Rossini.
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> How do you know what grade a piece is? Is there some sort of list or
> something? 'Cause there's always someone telling me what grade a piece is,
> but I have no idea where they got it! Urghhh!!!!!!
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> Will they ever do the clarinet fest in New York City?
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> Did an egg come first or the chicken?
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> Anyone's on the list and in New York City?
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> Anyone a veggietariano? I'm an ovo-lacto!
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> Does an A clarinetto use a Bb mouthpiece or is there an A clar. mp? I don't
> see any mps that says for A clarinet.
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> Thanks for reading!
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