Klarinet Archive - Posting 000054.txt from 2000/02

From: "Bryan Cholfin" <cranked@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Why?
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 21:47:45 -0500

> Most adult students have no hope of ever playing professionally. We love
> music, or at least enjoy it; and we've decided to try to play it ourselves,
> instead of just listening, for reasons such as these: making music ourselves
> satisfies some inner need; it's something to do with spare time; it's
> recreation we can share with families and friends; we get satisfaction from
> measuring progress toward challenging goals.

Well, Lelia's post seems to sum up pretty well the experience of being an
adult beginner. I wouldn't mind having a teacher. It would help when I get
stuck. For instance, I can get the horn to play through okay up through
about the F in the Clarion register, but the higher notes are still a
problem. Is my embouchure still not tight enough? Is it my fingering?
Somebody would really have to see me playing to know for sure. So I wouldn't
deny the value of a good teacher.
>

> P.S. to Bryan Cholfin, who started this thread: I miss _Crank_!
>
Well, talk about the unlikely intersections of two tiny worlds! I miss
Crank! too (well, some days), but at least the clarinet has not yet driven
me to brink of either insanity or bankruptcy (I'm learning the clarinet so I
can drive my _friends_ to insanity!). But I always like to hear from people
who liked it. It calms the tremors and the night terrors.

--Bryan

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