Klarinet Archive - Posting 000546.txt from 1997/05

From: Martin Marks <mmarks@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Playing Clarinet w/Colds
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 18:05:17 -0400

At 09:34 AM 5/20/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I am the proud father of a 3 year old. But alas I am now also the fertile
>receptacle for various cold viruses and other unknown diseases that he brings
>home from the playground here in NYC.
>
>Unfortunately for me, I have now gotten no less than a half a dozen colds
>this past 9 months as a result (normally I deal with one in the spring and
>one in the fall, maybe). My problem is that my clarinet playing goes to hell
>in a handbasket when my sinuses are stuffed. I don't know whether it is only
>because I can't hear myself (and so I lack the proper feedback) or something
>physical with the resonating cavities in my head.
>
>I find that my recovery (of embouchure) is almost faster if I stop playing
>completely during a cold rather than try to play through the cold.
>
>What do professionals do when they get colds? Is there a way to work through
>them? Do others have colds interefere with their playing to the same degree?
>I am driven to depression by this!
>
>Jerry Korten
>NYC
>
>
>I used to get several colds a year, but since I started taking large doses of
vitamin C(3000mg daily) I only had one cold it the last 3 or 4 years.

Marty

   
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