Klarinet Archive - Posting 000926.txt from 1999/01

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] leaving equipment on stand
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:29:57 -0500

> PROBLEM with the vast majority of my (and other's surely) pupils is
that they do
> not practise enough! One small help is to leave the instrument built
up so you
> only have to grab it, wet and mount the reed and start. My reasoning
is that the
> hardest part of practising for most people is opening the case.

OK - I'll admit it. I leave my clarinet assembled, ready to go, in my
office at home. If I don't - I won't practice as much as I should, or if
I feel like noodling around I won't, or I won't be able to bother one of
the kids playing piano at home (they just hate it when I play part of a
melody on the clarinet while they're practicing piano), or I won't be
able to con my middle kid into playing duets with me on a whim, he on
trumpet (with mute), me on clarinet.

Yes, the cork on my middle joint gets compressed (it's wobbling a bit
now, like it does every winter. Time to get the hot knife and a little
spit^H^H^H^Hwater to swell that cork up a bit. Small price to pay for
the enjoyment I get out of the instrument. I no longer have little
children, and if my pets every knocked it over I'd be on the Guinness
show - I keep fish, none of the walking kind, either :^)
----
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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