Klarinet Archive - Posting 000061.txt from 1998/09

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Kitties and Clarinet Playing
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 19:58:16 -0400

Please DO NOT attempt to teach your cat to play clarinet. You know those
mouthpiece patches? Won't work with the pointy incisors at all. And the
claws get caught on the sliver keys, too.

kjf

-----Original Message-----
From: pollyg@-----.com]
Subject: Re: [kl] Kitties and Clarinet Playing

P: I have been ear training my cat on the piano. He knows which end the
low notes come from and which end the high. I thought it was because he
could see the hammers (I can't remember what they're called) moving
underneath but one day I sat down near the piano with my clarinet and lo
and behold when I played low notes he headed to that end of the piano
where no hammers were moving and vice versa. He definitely likes high
notes better!
True story.
Paulette

On Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:07:03 -0700 "Kevin Fay (LCA)"
<kevinfay@-----.com> writes:
snip
>Better to start on piano. My son has already "started," and shows
>quite an
>affinity for atonality (he's 15 mos. old and treats the piano like a
>noisy
>highchair). If a wind instrument is desired, try recorder or a modern
>equivalent--they're only five bucks or so, smaller, and don't require
>any
>teeth at all.
>
>kjf
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Craig Romanec u [mailto:roma1960@-----.ca]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 9:21 PM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Children and Clarinet Playing
>
>
>
>
> I think it's very tempting after hearing reports from string
>and
>piano players having started playing at the age of 3 or 4, to want to
>adopt
>this sort of early start with our instrument. I'm wondering, however,
>
>how plausible this is, as a child's lungs might be too underdeveloped
>to get
>
>that far with a clarinet. A Bb clarinet requires a lot of air. The
>extra
>pressure, though, from an Eb clarinet I'm sure would only further
>aggravate
>the problem. At what typical age do human lungs develop to the point
>to
>begin to be able to accept adult-level tasks?
>
> Anything below this mark would be best spent learning to read
>music. And for that a keyboard instrument such as the piano would be
>a
>better choice, providing a visual as well as aural representation of
>pitch
>relationships (up and down) that no other instrument can provide as
>well.
>
>Craig Romanec
> I am roma1960@-----.ca
>---------------------------------------------------
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>that new life forms will emerge from it spontaneously,
>demanding welfare and voting rights." - Douglas Adams
>
>On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Ed Lyons wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Any ideas on how young a person can start learning clarinet? Is it
>a good
>idea to start a child out on the Eb? or should a parent wait
>(assuming
>there is sufficient interest on the child's part) until he or she can
>handle
>a Bb?
>>
>> Excuse me if this has already been a thread on the list.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ed Lyons
>>
>>
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