Klarinet Archive - Posting 000981.txt from 1997/10

From: Charles <chardy@-----.com>
Subj: Re: bad tone
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 11:45:51 -0400

At 09:45 PM 10/24/97 -0500, you wrote:
>I teach woodwinds in a middle school and am lucky enough to have the
>beginner clarinets all by themselves. I always seem to have one clarinet
>player who plays very flat. The embouchure looks good and when I play with
>the student, she matches my pitch after some work. What is she doing to
>play so flat in the first place? She is on a normandy clarinet, a B45 mpc
>and size 3 Vandoren reeds( I didn't recommend the size, the music
>supervisor does that). They have all been playing for 10 weeks now.
>
>TIA
>
>Pat
>
>I think a Van Doren 3 on a B45 is much too hard for a student playing only ten weeks.

The local middle and high school teachers (husband and wife) INSIST on a 4.5 for ALL
students. What can one do without offending them? (neither one plays clarinet!)
>
Charlie