Klarinet Archive - Posting 000411.txt from 1997/07

From: YeomanHuff@-----.com
Subj: Re: piercing
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 17:50:41 -0400

In a message dated 97-07-14 17:31:15 EDT, jclark@-----. Clark)
writes:

<< That's why it's semi-surprising to read
what could be considered rather unkind comments addressed to the kid with
tongue-piercing question.

I distinctly remember my father raising the roof when I got my ear pierced
at age 18 in 1975. I wore various earrings, had long hair, dressed
flamboyantly, and made a bare living playing music for a total of eight or
nine years. >>

The difference is that you did not tongue your instrument with your earlobe.
You could easily play your clarinet without either earlobe and dressed
completely naked. My concern is the destruction of tissue vital to playing
your instrument. And the greatist concern is that this damage may not be
temporary. I don't care what my students wear or do to their ears, hair,
navel or eyebrows: All I am concerned with is with their overall health and
how it affects their lungs, lips, tongue, arms, fingers and wrists, and
brain. :)

Teri Herel.