Klarinet Archive - Posting 000956.txt from 1998/11

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] re:Flat Fingers
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:09:28 -0500

>>The
>>reason is simple. It's what works best for most of us.
>And a good teacher (who will also be a good student) will see what
works
>for the few who don't fit the mold.
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>I studied Piano (pedagogy) with one of Horowitz's 5 (he only taught 5
>students his whole life), and he did not teach , nor use the flat
fingers
>technique.

So? My point being that if in fact a student does better using an
unorthodox technique, and "standard" techniques do not improve the
students abilities, then the good teacher will learn from this and help
the student using those abilities that the student has, or will refer
the student to a teacher who can work with those abilities. (OB run-on
sentence).
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