Klarinet Archive - Posting 000424.txt from 1999/08

From: "Maurey" <edsshop@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Earliest Age to Start Playing Clarinet?
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 13:08:50 -0400

I started 44 years ago when I was 10. My adult teeth were slow coming
in---- but I had my 4 incisors and a bunch of gaps. Players in their 50's
told me then that when they were kids it was common to start kids on Eb
clarinets. It sounded like a good idea to me when I was 10. Today it seems
like a hideous thing to do. Think of the poor parents!

I hate to argue with someone of Emma Johnson's stature but I think learning
some skills should be done as early as possible. When I think back to my
days as a beginner it always strikes me how quick I was to absorb the
knowledge necessary to play and how I wish I had been given much more than I
got. I had teriffic teachers but I still wish I been told the tricks I know
today that were learned so much more slowly and less thoroughly as an adult.

I have a friend who is a professor of linguistics. He told me that if a
person learns a second [or third] language after the age of 10 he will
always have a dicernable accent. I wonder if learning to "speak" with a
musical instrument is in any way similar?

Ed Maurey
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From: CEField@-----.com>
Date: Saturday, August 14, 1999 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Earliest Age to Start Playing Clarinet?

>I started playing at 10 and never seemed to have a problem holding the
>clarinet. I was one of the taller girls in my class, though.
>
>Fifty and STILL learning how to play the clarinet well,
>Cindy
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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 13:16:12 -0400
From: Frank Galiani <fgaliani@-----.net>
Subject: [donax-m] Legere reed

I'm an early intermediate clarinetist and recently tried the Legere
reed. I found it a fairly nice, fairly responsive reed with the
advantage that it could be used immediately with no soaking. It's nice
to have one on hand "just in case." However, it did not have the warmly
rich woody responsiveness of the Vandoren V-12s, which I now enjoy
playing. Frank
Frank P. Galiani

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