Klarinet Archive - Posting 000236.txt from 2000/05

From: "Jim Youngman" <youngman@-----.au>
Subj: RE: [kl] Thumb rest
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 07:30:47 -0400

I have experienced several similar problems while I have been learning
(since last September) and have tried such remedies to no avail. The big
improvement occurred when I purchased a decent mouthpiece. The one with my
student Bundy was terrible. After buying the replacement all the fingering
became easier. Don't ask me why. I guess that maybe when less effort is
needed to produce the air required for the sound, then the brain has more
capacity to deal with other problems. Perhaps there is more oxygen available
for the brain. :)

Any way, I still have difficulties with some new fingerings when I first try
them, but they (the problems) disappear with time and practice.

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Wright [mailto:Bilwright@-----.net]
> Sent: Thursday, 4 May 2000 12:07 pm
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Thumb rest
>
>
> Perhaps "long fingering" (in my previous post) was the incorrect
> term. I meant the fingering where you move your right hand
> pinky to the
> right in order to depress the E key (and don't use the left hand pinky
> version of the E key).
>
>
>
> <><> Several times now, I have bought something against
> the advice
> of people here. And each time I've discovered that the experienced
> players were correct and I wasted my money.
>      <><>  So ..... Is there any reason that I should not
> ask the local music store to put an adjustable thumb rest on
> my plastic
> student Yamaha?
> <><> I ask because, unless I position my thumb in a
> really awkward
> way, I'm having a difficult time with the long fingering for
> B-natural-on-the-staff (uncovers other right hand holes). I
> _can_ do it
> reliably if I put my thumb in a really awkward position on the thumb
> rest, and I'm thinking that if I could just slide the thumb rest a
> little bit this way.....
>      <><> Or am I going to be sorry (again)??
>
>
> Thanks,
>     Bill
>
>
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