Klarinet Archive - Posting 001418.txt from 1998/10

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Galper register tube
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 16:38:13 -0500

From: Chester754@-----.com>

>Actually, it is really interesting to read about all the new products
>available to clarinet players these days. However, the most important
product,
>in my opinion remains the constant attention to good basics:
embouchure,
>breath support, finger placement, and a constant devotion to scales,
>arppeggios, Baerman Book III, Klose, Rose 32 Etudes, and duet playing.
These
>"products" will overcome most problems with clarinets, mouthpieces,
register
>tubes, and even in some cases, reeds! I am of the old fashioned opinion
that
>many modern day students of the clarinet may be drifting away from
these
>basics. Chester754

If in fact a new register tube can allow someone to practice _other_
valuable things (things other than trying to get a good throat Bb) then
I'm all for someone getting that new register tube!

Cheers,
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Mark Charette@-----.org
Webmaster, http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet
All-around good guy and devil-may-care flying fool.
"There can be no freedom without discipline." - Nadia Boulanger

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