Klarinet Archive - Posting 000823.txt from 1999/11

From: David Glenn <notestaff@-----.de>
Subj: [kl] How young to start clarinet?
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 07:49:01 -0500

Neil Leupold wrote:

> --- David Glenn <notestaff@-----.de> schrieb:
>
> > The problem is, as you suggest, the teeth but also the air, the weight,
> > the difficulty of handling an instrument, the pointlessness of teaching
> > a three-year-old to read music, etc, etc.
>
> HUH?? "...the pointlessness of teaching a three-year-old to read music" ??
>
> -- Neil
>

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Neil,

Sorry to take so long for the reply. I still have a couple hundred messages to
wade through. Just don't find the time so easily at the moment...

I gather from your comment "HUH?" that you have a problem with the quote.

If a (precocious) three year old really wants to learn to read (language or
music or whatever), he may manage. But otherwise, it's more sensible to teach a
child of that age by rote, just like with a language. In fact, it may be more
sensible to teach anybody by that method. I've been experimenting and find that
I go longer and longer with my beginners up to age 10 or so with no printed
music.

Does this answer your question (if that's what it was)?

David

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