Klarinet Archive - Posting 000757.txt from 2000/07

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] The role of the reed
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:22:13 -0400

<><> Neil=A0Leupold wrote:
Alright, I'm partially kidding around here, but I gotta ask: "If you
don't know what the truth is, how can you be so sure that focusing on
the reed will direct a student away from it?"

Point taken!

<><> The non-kidding part pertains to my other recent post, which
addresses students' different learning styles. Where one player might
say, "This whole business with the reed is confusing to me and I'm
getting frustrated," another student's brain might be wired in such a
way that focusing on the reed leads him on a direct path to the "truth."

...well, I guess the one word that caught my attention was
"entirely".... which is why I needed to retract my own phrase of
"absolutely not."

If two factors contribute significantly to the final effect, can
the 'truth' be served by focusing on either factor to the exclusion of
the other? In this case (and speaking from recent memories of my own
learning experiences), I think that air cavity and reed are close enough
to a 50/50 synergy that a student should (somehow) be kept aware that if
one of these ideas doesn't make sense yet, then he or she is missing a
critical point and should not be encouraged to remain in this state.

But I think that each of us understands what the other is saying,
and presumably neither of us feels the need to batter this point into
the soil.

Cheers and thank you,
Bill

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