Klarinet Archive - Posting 000919.txt from 1997/08

From: SDM@-----. Morrow)
Subj: Fake Recorders?! (was: How young is too young?)
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 16:14:16 -0400

Fred wrote:

> All in all, I'd recommend another instrument such as piano for
>one so young. Either that of, if you want a wind instrument, Recorder.
>However, my experience in teaching little ones recorder has been that
>after a year of it, they are really ready to go on to a "real" instrument
>which makes more sound and which they can see with their siblings who are
>in school band.

The recorder IS a real instrument! Perhaps if we didn't treat them
like toys, kids wouldn't "lose interest" in them! You can't expect to have
"mastered" the recorder after one year of lessons any more than you'd
expect to master the clarinet after one year! If the student is getting
bored with recorder, the student can move on to more complicated pieces.

I apologise if I'm just being picky!

-Scott

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

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