Klarinet Archive - Posting 000216.txt from 2000/12

From: "Buckman, Nancy" <nebuckman@-----.us>
Subj: RE: [kl] Legere Reeds
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 15:25:59 -0500

Roger,

This instructor had the nerve to suggest that the child would be better off
with another private teacher. Maybe I'm wrong, but I have no time to spend
trying to educate someone with this mindset. This child has been accepted
into the clinic orchestra of our local training orchestra, plastic reed and
all. If she chooses to end participation in this man's class, it won't be
any great loss to her. He is the one who loses out.

Nancy

Nancy E. Buckman, Technical Assistant
School of Health Professions, Wellness and Physical Education
Anne Arundel Community College
Arnold, Maryland 21012 USA
nebuckman@-----.us

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rgarrett@-----.edu]
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 11:56 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Legere Reeds
>
> Nancy,
>
> I hope you really didn't write the band director a note offering to remove
>
> the child from the class. There are many band directors who simply do not
>
> know what is going on with clarinet performance/learning/etc. Can this be
>
> excused? No - it's a sorry thing that music education in the colleges
> didn't prepare this fellow better. He probably doesn't know about Legeres
>
> - and he is smart not to allow a plastic reed in his band otherwise (I
> wouldn't). I also wouldn't get too upset that he doesn't know who Larry
> Combs is - there are a lot of clarinet player band directors who don't
> know
> who bud Herseth is either. In fact, there are proabably several prominent
>
> list members here who couldn't name the principal trumpet players of the
> New York, Boston (that's a toughie - it changes so often!!!), LA,
> Cleveland, and Philadelphia orchestras. This would be a good opportunity
> to educate this teacher - and for him to learn what you are doing with the
>
> child.
>
> I would call the band director and let him know what is up. He may end up
>
> becoming a real enthusiast. If he still gives you trouble, then you find
> his house and glue all of your old reeds on his front door!
>
> Sincerely,
> Roger Garrett
>
> At 11:00 AM 12/4/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >I have a new 4th grade student who's family doesn't have the money to
> spend
> >on boxes of reeds, so I gave her a Legere to use. I got a very succinct
> >note from her band director, that she was not to use this reed in his
> class
> >- that he wanted cane reeds only. I had this child's mother write back
> to
> >him that she would have a discussion with the school principal, if he
> >insisted that she refrain from using the new reed, that if the Legere was
> >good enough for Larry Combs that it better be considered to be good
> enough
> >for her child. This mother got a note back asking who Larry Combs was.
> >The band director was also complaining that the strength 2.5 reed was too
> >hard for a new player to be using. This kid sounds like dynamite. She
> is
> >using on one of my Evette and Schaeffer Master Models and has been
> playing
> >since the beginning of September and is a little more than half way
> through
> >the first Rubank book. I just penned a note to this man informing him
> that
> >we can always withdraw this student from his program. It will be
> >interesting to see what his response is.
> >
> >Nancy
> >
> >Nancy E. Buckman, Technical Assistant
> >School of Health Professions, Wellness and Physical Education
> >Anne Arundel Community College
> >Arnold, Maryland 21012 USA
> >nebuckman@-----.us
> >
> >
> >
> > > At 02:19 AM 12/1/00 EST, you wrote:
> > > > I live in Miami and, yes it's very humid and I do go throw alot
> of
> > > boxes
> > > >of reeds... but I would never change to a Plastic reed, It's a
> WOODwind
> > > >instrument not a PLASTICwind...lol My director would kill me if he
> even
> > > knew
> > > >I even bought one... A cane reed gives the clarinet the warm tone
> that
> > > it's
> > > >made to produce and that we all enjoy a plastic reed is no
> substitute!!
> > > > Denise, 17
> > > >Miami- Bass/sapreno Clarinet
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> Roger Garrett
> Assistant Professor of Clarinet
> Director, Symphonic Winds
> Head, Recording Studio
> Illinois Wesleyan University
> School of Music
> Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
> (309) 556-3268
>
> "A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes
> another's."
> Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)
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