Klarinet Archive - Posting 000915.txt from 1998/11

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] THIRD FINGERS STRAIGHT?!?!?!?!
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 19:04:20 -0500

On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Mark Charette wrote:

> >I have observed my wife
> >teaching piano and organ students, and admonishing them to curve the
> >fingers.
>
> I always laugh at that one, especially as an absolute. Horowitz broke
> that and other rules every day of his playing career (wrist below the
> keyboard, fingers flat).
>
> But, boy, could he play ...

Roger Garrett didn't say that he reserved this technique for students who
were the equivalent of Horowitz, or as another poster has suggested, Van
Cliburn. I always follow the admonition, "Don't be to quick to assume
that you are the exception to the general rule."

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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