Klarinet Archive - Posting 000763.txt from 1999/04

From: David Mack Endres <endres@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Sitting vs. standing, was Re: [kl] Double Lip Playing-Question for Tom Ridnouer
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 18:00:25 -0400

All:

David Pino played a recital here in Austin a few years back. [I recall
the Brahms Sonata 2(might have bene 1?), not sure what else he
played.] No surprise: he stood. However, I recently finished reading
the Dover re-issue of his book. Imagine my surprise when he went on at
length about how the instrumentalist should sit, even for a recital,
so as not to call excess attention to oneself over the accompanist [a
particularly good point in the context of the Brahms Sonatas in which
both players have quite strong roles.] So much for walking the
talk...

Another Pino story: he advocates and uses shoe string ligatures. A
clarinet player (not a music major) recently joined our community band
who had taken lessons from him at Southwest Texas U. (San Marcos,
TX). She used a shoelace ligature for the first few sessions, then
switched to a conventional metal ligature (peer pressure? I certainly
didn't comment adversly, but I had noticed the string). The next
rehearsal she had a terrible time getting a good response in the high
clarion. She had happily switched back to that big fat shoelace the
next week. Who else uses a shoelace ligature?

Mack

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