Klarinet Archive - Posting 000936.txt from 1999/02

From: Christian Budde <emv080@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] More on BAERMANN
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 05:26:31 -0500

Yesterday, I went to a shop and tried to find the phrase in question
in the 'original'. I think I found it, but I didn't want to buy the
book, so I have to recall, what I read yesterday (of course it was in
german):

It means something like 'At the beginning, try to form the embouchure
as your teacher told you to. Do not try to adjust this (too much) for
certain tones until you know it by heart. Then start working out
intonation and tone-colour.'

Baermann states a few sentences later that every tone in fact needs a
different embouchure (though the differences of course are small). So
the previous seems to be related to this, meaning simply 'fine-tuning
after forming the base'.

This seems to be a good advice. I am not teaching ( I always said
'no' even if asked by friends just to show the first steps. My
statement in this case is: 'What I teach wrong in the first 6 months
cannot be made up with a professional teacher in 6 years') but the
daughter of a friend of mine wants to learn the clarinet and I have an
old instrument around. So I just wanted to look, if she can reach all
the keys already (she is 9 years old), and she of course wanted to
make at least some sound. _That_ was a struggle! I did not know that
you have to think of so many things at the same time (how did I ever
learn it myself?). Making the start as easy as possible is, as I can
see now, very important.

Christian

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