Klarinet Archive - Posting 000178.txt from 1997/08

From: "Donald Walkner" <dwalkner@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Kids Today
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 12:29:19 -0400

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> From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Re: Kids Today
> Date: Tuesday, August 05, 1997 10:39 PM
>
> At 07:34 PM 8/5/97 -0500, you wrote:
> > What's the matter with *kids* these days? Well, speaking as a
> >kid whose first band director never told me how to do anything with my
> >instrument, I ask what is the matter with band directors these days. I
> >never was even told how to choose a reed or how to correctly swab my
> >instrument until our school hired a real woodwind two years later than I
> >started. The first director played trumpet and couldn't even put a
> >clarinet together, let alone teach us how to care for it.
> >Sorry, I just had to vent.
>
> You have struck a nerve (see previous posting about players and
> self-maintenance). As a school services representative (roadman) for a
> music store, I see the deplorable condition of the instruments the kids
in
> school are playing. They don't know, and worse, the TEACHER does not
know,
> what is wrong with the horn, or even that anything IS wrong with it. It
is
> no wonder kids get frustrated and quit. They think they just have no
> talent, when in fact, the problem is entirely mechanical and easily
> repaired (often on the spot). Congratulations on surviving the ordeal!
>
>
>
>

> Bill Hausmann
bhausman@-----.com
> 451 Old Orchard Drive
http://www.concentric.net/~bhausman
> Essexville, MI 48732
http://members.wbs.net/homepages/z/o/o/zoot14.html
>
> If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

How about the teachers that won't take your instrument in to get fixed even
though you tell them it's broke and it constantly keeps breaking? Even
though the student treats it with respect. At my school, for some odd
reason, the woodwind instruments (school owned) are overlooked when the
time comes to bring them in for repairs each summer. But of course, he can
buy all new french horns, euphoniums and percussion equipment!!!
Amy

   
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