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Klarinet Archive - Posting 000033.txt from 1998/11
From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] re:back to the basics
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 19:56:47 -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
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I'll add my 2 cents. There is (as Chester wrote) no substitute for good
instruction, and thoughtful practice. Without both, the player will never
achieve any level of expertise. I am big, big time into the basics. But I will
tell a student to use a decent Clarinet, get a better Ligature, use high
quality cane, and a play on a good mouthpiece almost from day one. The tube is
like having a good mouthpiece - it just makes the job of playing a little
easier, and more efficient. I do not really concern myself with the
Bb being more clear (even on A Clarinet I can reach the side alternate key
while playing the RH resonance keys for a crystal clear Bb), the best thing the
tube does is even-up the upper register - that is worth quite a bit.
I don't think there are many name players who just settle with the mouthpiece
and ligature that their Clarinet came with. Why? will it make them a better
player, have to practice less, etc. etc. etc - no. But it can make the job a
little more easy.
Baermann Book III? We did that too.
Any questions, comments, orders for the Tube should be sent to me
(reedman@-----. I do not want to
sound like an ad, and bug the list, so I'll lay low for now.
David Blumberg
reedman@-----.com
http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/Music/Blumberg.html
http://members.aol.com/cwindz/galper.html
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