Klarinet Archive - Posting 001008.txt from 1999/10

From: "Franklin Kercher" <kranwli@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: playing the Clarinet from behind the student
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 02:11:32 -0500

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From: GCalzati@-----.com>
Date: Saturday, October 30, 1999 5:24 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] re: playing the Clarinet from behind the student

>In a message dated 10/29/99 6:32:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>reedman@-----.com writes:
>
>> Yes, but how many MALE students did the teacher try that on? ;)
>> You don't have to do it from behind, just turn the mouthpiece around. I
>use
>> that technique to show my younger students how higher notes feel when
the
>> fingers are covering properly. They don't squeak, and find it to be very
>> easy.
>>
>I also turn the mouthpiece around and finger the notes and have the student
>blow.
>I usually do this for the low notes to prove that their fingers just
weren't
>covering and for the notes with the register key. First I finger the low
note
>and add the register key when they least expect it to prove that they don't
>need to "over do it" to reach the higher notes.
>
>Georgette
>.....Yes, I've tried this with the sixth graders who always say its their
instrument. Boy are they surprised when I go all over the scale with them
blowing gently and steadily .
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