Klarinet Archive - Posting 000976.txt from 1999/01

From: CmdrHerel@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] leaving equipment on stand
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:53:14 -0500

In a message dated 1/18/99 8:10:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, coffman@-----.net
writes:

<< > 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. >>

I feel this is a bad habit to perpetuate. How long does it really take to put
together a clarinet? Two minutes tops? When it's in the case it can't get
knocked over, it doesn't get banged, nobody else is tempted to pick it up,
etc. What happens when kiddie graduates to a wood clarinet? Do they practice
less because now they have to keep it in the case? Having to keep a clarinet
put together and on a peg in order to practice is just plain sloth. I would
not tolerate this with my students.

Teri Herel.

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