Klarinet Archive - Posting 000840.txt from 1996/08

From: David Blumberg <reedman@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: "Clarinet Practicer" Hands
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 09:58:22 -0400

Scott,
I don't come across players who look at their hands past the 1st or 2nd lesson
in 4th grade. I tell them to not look, -problem solved. I was joking before.
David C. Blumberg

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From: Klarinet - Clarinettist's Network on behalf of Joerg Peltzer
Sent: Saturday, August 31, 1996 9:58 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list KLARINET
Subject: Re: "Clarinet Practicer"

> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 23:51:50 -0400
> Reply-to: "Klarinet - Clarinettist's Network"
<KLARINET@-----.DE>
> From: Scott Lipcon <slipcon@-----.NET>
> Subject: Re: "Clarinet Practicer"
> To: Multiple recipients of list KLARINET
<KLARINET@-----.DE>

> On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, David Blumberg wrote:
>
> > Hey, it sounds like a good thing for the student who looks at his/her
hands
> > while playing. Kind of like a clarinet magic show!
> > David C. Blumberg
>

I came across a lot of Students who tend to look at their Fingers,
and it was always a bad habit.
As they have to learn most of the tunes by heart, just to hear and
correct the Sound, some Students started looking at their Fingers.
What I wanted to archieve is, that they learn something like a
Performance Feeling.
Try it out, when you look down while playing, your thoat is squeezing
and the Air-Flow is broken.
Just an Experience and Suggestion!
JP

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