Klarinet Archive - Posting 000051.txt from 1997/07

From: SDM@-----. Morrow)
Subj: Learning about mpcs & reeds in school (was Experiment)
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 09:06:57 -0400

deerich wrote:

>My own school teachers did NOT take the time to find the right reeds for
>the mouthpieces and did not even teach us where to look. I learned that
>on my own later and also learned a great deal from my older daughter's
>private teacher (I started taking her to one in the 6th grade).

I, also, never got this knowledge in school, and, thus, never knew
it was an option! (I only took private lessons briefly in high school, and
it never came up there, either!). This is one of the topics for which I am
grateful to the klarinet list!

Those of you who are school band instructors should consider this
for your students. Since you're on this list, I would assume you are
clarinetists, but perhaps consider the needs of your other instruments, as
well, and arrange to have "experts" in those instruments have sectionals to
discuss the instruments with your students?

If you're involved with a school music program as a parent,
perhaps you could suggest this to your school music instructors?

Remember that if you don't know the questions, you can't look up
the answers!

-Scott

Scott D. Morrow
Department of Biochemistry
School of Hygiene and Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
(410) 955-3631

SDM@-----.edu