Klarinet Archive - Posting 001051.txt from 1997/10

From: AmyLynnR@-----.com
Subj: Re: bad tone
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 23:38:23 -0400

I don't think you can blame bad teachers for turning kids off to music. I've
never had a really good teacher. In fact, I've never even had a teacher who
knew how to play the clarinet. I just practice twice a day and I try to
learn from those around me, books, and well, the internet. My band
instructer couldn't care less about anything but his stupid beloved trumpet
section! My point is, that if you're motivated to play music, nothing can
stop you. Right now I'm making a sad attempt at teaching myself the flute,
and I'll get it eventually. No one doesn't like music, the fact is that it
is not sociably accebtable to be a musician, or in performing arts, which
sorta cuts me out of everything. It's not the teachers, it's society as a
whole.
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