Klarinet Archive - Posting 000985.txt from 1999/10
From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] re: playing the Clarinet from behind the student
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 15:15:05 -0400
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999 12:56:44 -0500, jhobby@-----.Net said:
> Even 30 years ago, when I was teaching public school band, I would
> never have considered standing behind someone, male or female, as
> close as would be necessary to hold the clarinet in position. The
> practice I've always seen was to turn the mouthpiece backward. This
> allows the instructor to stand in front of the student and play the
> fingerings. (You can also control the angle of the mpc into the mouth
> from that position.)
>
> I hope whoever it was that did the stand-behind positioning thinks
> very long before doing it again -- or at least, I wish them the best
> of luck in their aggravated sexual battery case!
I do think it's a shame that we have to be quite as nervous as this,
though Jim's solution obviously gets round the problem.
I've always found that the simplest solution -- even if you want to
check directly whether somebody's abdominal muscles are flexed enough or
too much when they are playing, surely the most 'dangerous' sort of
touch that we might consider -- is to explain to the student what you
want to do; explain why you need to ask his or her permission to do
that; and then do it, or not, depending on the answer you get.
Actually, I find that this procedure, or the spirit of it, at any rate,
works well in most human interactions -- even (or perhaps, especially)
sexual ones:-)
Tony
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