Klarinet Archive - Posting 000612.txt from 1999/03

From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Studio teaching Horrors
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 03:02:05 -0500

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Ed Maurey wrote:

> Back in 1963 my clarinet teacher, Jack Rattery, observed that I was
> breathing from my chest and shoulders. He "communicated" the proper
> technique by having me lie on the floor and then sitting his fully
> developed bottom on my [then] tiny teenaged tummy. He then commanded me
> to lift him as high as I could with said tummy. He told me that those were
> the right muscles to use. It worked.

LOL! Holy cow that's funny. :^)

Neil

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