Klarinet Archive - Posting 000645.txt from 2000/05

From: Claudia Zornow <claudia@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Finger lengths
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 17:10:44 -0400

Mark Thiel wrote:

> I know personally that if my PINKIE to other finger ratio
> were a little higher I would have an easier time reaching the
> dozen pinkie keys on my bass clarinet; but then probably
> people with eefer-sized hands that insist on playing bass
> are just doing so in denial of their sexual/machismo
> inadequacies.

On both hands, my little fingers' length is only up to the midpoint
between the first and second knuckles on my ring fingers. Most
people whose hands I've looked at have little fingers with length
up to the first knuckle on their ring fingers.

This would seem to be a disadvantage for me on clarinet and bass
clarinet and baritone sax, but I manage, more or less. How long =

are other people's little fingers, and is it a problem for you?

As for "sexual/machismo inadequacies," no one who plays the bass
clarinet can possibly be inadequate.

Claudia

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