Klarinet Archive - Posting 000754.txt from 1999/08

From: "O'Neile & Fisher" <redcedar@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] Advice on student.............
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:32:20 -0400

Richard Bush wrote:
"Some of the most extraordinarily difficult skills that must be mastered to
play the clarinet have to do with crossing the register break, thus placing
a disproportionate burden on left hand skills. The majority of us right
handers don't seem to be complaining about that. Actually, you should feel
lucky. When you think about it, the clarinet is already designed for and
favors left handed players."

Richard,
Your observations are pertinent.
However, I wasn't complaining about the lack of "left-handed" whatevers, and
indeed have no trouble accommodating the clarinet's conventional design - it
seems natural to me, and crossing the break is unproblematic.
I was taking issue, perhaps obliquely, with the assumption that there is
only one way to do things, implicit in the other correspondent's: "That sure
is pathetic! Even my 4th grade recorder students have learned to put their
right hand on the bottom."
Michael

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