Klarinet Archive - Posting 000339.txt from 1998/02

From: lanewhite@-----.com (Lane G White)
Subj: Re: Starting on E-Flat?
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 21:40:01 -0500

On Wed, 04 Feb 1998 22:00:01 -0500 Rick Lones <lones@-----.net> writes:

>3) I don't much buy the notion that the most important aspect of
>student music is the social
>one. I don't remember it that way for myself, anyhow.

In any case, it *is* possible to be both ahead of your peers and
reasonably well thought of - after all, the only ones who have any cause
to resent your success are your own section. Hmmm, maybe that's why all
my friends were brass players... :-)

>Squeaks will happen no matter what the
>instrument. I'm inclined to doubt
>that E-Flat squawks are that much worse than B-Flat ones. Could be
>tragically wrong about that,
>though.

Hopefully, the chronic squawk phase will be short lived. But the eefer
*is* more difficult to play in tune, by all accounts - I think this more
the issue.

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