Klarinet Archive - Posting 000734.txt from 2000/05

From: Mark Thiel <thielm@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Finger lengths
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 12:43:31 -0400

>
>Mark Thiel wrote:
>>probably people with eefer-sized hands that insist on playing bass
>> are just doing so in denial of their sexual/machismo inadequacies...

Lelia wrote:>Uh-oh, wonder what that says about me...?

>Claudia Zornow wrote,
>>>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.

Lelia wrote:
>FWIW, my pinkie fingers are 1-7/8" long and almost pencil-thin, and my
ring
>fingers are 2-1/4" long, but the shape of my hand is so tapered that
the
>pinkie fingers only reach to halfway between middle and end joints of
my ring
>fingers.
. . .

Hmmm, I've got you beat by a good 3/8" on the pinkies, though both mine
are crooked
from volleyball dislocations (and whose fault is that, anyhow?).

Robert Schumann had a wonderful device for strengthening fingers which
is
probably available (now that he's a decomposer). Naah, I guess I'll
just
stop whining and play.

As far as macho images go -- if I ever had any faintest illusions of
such they
pretty much went by the board when I got a low-C bass. Since it stands
8"
taller than a low Eb, I generally need a booster chair now -- probably
not
the way to be cool. Love those 3 new notes though.

Mark Thiel

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