Klarinet Archive - Posting 000421.txt from 1999/08

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Earliest Age to Start Playing Clarinet?
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 11:51:15 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: GCalzati@-----.com]
>
> I have only started two 2nd graders who wanted to play the
> clarinet so bad.
>
> I had them start on the recorder. They each did this for about 4 or 5
> months. Then they switched to the clarinet.
>

Having started this way myself, I wholeheartedly endorse starting small
children on similar but smaller instruments. I started music lessons before
I began school and went through bells and Tonettes before getting to the
recorder. Recorders are in themselves wonderful instruments on which to
learn all kinds of musical skills. They cost a couple of dollars, provide a
full chromatic scale over at least two octaves, and there's a huge body of
literature from beginning "instructional" material to authentic compositions
intended for virtuoso performance. They provide a very easily handled tool
for learning music-reading skills. I think recorders are a great way to
introduce children who are physically too small to fully handle a clarinet.

Karl Krelove

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