Klarinet Archive - Posting 001239.txt from 1997/10

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: bad tone
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:07:36 -0500

1) Pat is probably right.
2) People like that NEED offending!!!
ROger Shilcock

On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Charles wrote:

> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 06:56:54 -0400
> From: Charles <chardy@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Re: bad tone
>
> 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
>