Klarinet Archive - Posting 000560.txt from 2000/08

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] taking up the clarinet again
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 15:19:31 -0400

From: "Tony Pay" <Tony@-----.uk>

> On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 10:48:32 -0700 (PDT), Bilwright@-----.net said:
>
> > A detail that seldom gets mentioned during these discussions is
> > "forgiveness" -- by which I mean that YCL-20 (and other student horns,
> > I assume) allow you to make slight errors and still produce a note.
>
> [snip]
>
> > It took me several weeks to understand that, all along, I have been
> > covering some holes in some fingerings only 98% or 99%. My student
> > horn lets me get away with it, but the pro horn does not.
>
> I don't think this is true, in general, your personal experience to the
> contrary. Or, at least, I've never encountered it.
>
> Has anyone else?

There's been plenty of anecdotal evidence of this presented on the Clarinet
Bulletin Board I run on Sneezy (http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/BBoard/).

Mark Charette

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