Klarinet Archive - Posting 000584.txt from 2000/11

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl]Triplets, Quads, Quins, sextuplets, Septs, Octs, and more
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:57:42 -0500

Doug Benoit wrote,
>I've been a professional clarinetist for over twenty yers,
>and have never seen such small minds...discussing the
>science of how to play groupings. I have in my inbox, well
>over two hundred email messages through The Klarinet email
>news and messaging which discuss the proper ways of playing
>the grouped notes. ...and I just signed up for this service
>last week!
>
>1) If you emailers would spend more time in the practice
>room, practicing those notes - as well as many others -
>you'd be better at them.

Welcome to the group...?

I haven't posted previously on the threads about notation, because I thought
it might not be a bad idea to shut up and learn something -- but the fact
that you subscribed to the list only last week makes your message so
intriguing that I can't resist asking: On such short acquaintance, how do
you know how much time the rest of us spend e-mailing as opposed to
practicing? Are you perhaps not only a professional clarinetist but a
psychic?

How interesting! I've never encountered a real psychic before. The ones I
run into all seem to be either self-deluded or frauds. Guess the crystal
ball hasn't yet had time to show you that several of the people
participating in these notation threads are professional clarinet players,
too. I think they probably do practice, once in a while, and may even have
picked up (no doubt by accident) some rudimentary skill at reading music, but
then I defer to your superior wisdom.

Lelia
...with all due respect.

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