Klarinet Archive - Posting 000105.txt from 1997/09

From: elspeth4@-----. Grant)
Subj: Clarinet is pretty easy (was How old is too old?)
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 00:56:37 -0400

Clarinet is a great instrument to begin on because the basics are easy,
but try telling most serious amateurs or _any_ professionals it's easy
and they'll probably laugh at you! In my opinion, unlike many other wind
instruments, clarinet only gets harder as you go on. :-) But it's a lot
more fun than the other instruments, too. There are a few lucky people
for whom clarinet is easy, but they are the exceptions, not the trend. I
sometimes wish I was one of them, but sometimes I think the successes are
all the more rewarding because I really have to work for them.

Alexis

"You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge
and come out completely dry. Most people do."
--The Phantom Tollbooth

On Tue, 2 Sep 1997 07:50:57 -0700 Gary_VanCott@-----.com writes:

>taco--belle (?) wrote:
> . . . Clarinet is pretty easy. . . .
>
>* * *
>Now you tell me. I have always thought clarinet was the most difficult
>thing I have tried to do in my life. Except golf, and I quit playing
>golf.
>
>Gary Van Cott
>Las Vegas, NV