Klarinet Archive - Posting 000237.txt from 2000/12

From: Gary Truesdail <gir@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Legere Reeds
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 23:22:31 -0500

I has a similar situation early on in my teaching career, (circa 1966). A new
student showed up for orchestra class in the middle of the year (7th grader) and
with her own violin. I was impressed, she had her own violin? Awesome! Had
problems trying to get her to hold the bow correctly. To make a long story
short, the student entered the class mid year because she had just come off the
road with Merle Haggard. She was a fiddler, not a violinist, and could not do
what it took to learn a scale from the written page or to hold the bow in any
manner to which she was not already accustomed. But boy could she play, all from
rote. I felt since she had already was probably making as much $$$ as I was at
that time that my 'interference' might not be the best thing for her. I
discussed this with the mother and we agreed that the girl should keep taking
lessons with whomever while on the road and not from some Jr. High School Band
director to whom strings was a secondary subject.

Nancy, between you and the band director you are the most expert. Talk it over
with him and I am sure he will learn that you are actually on his side but that
you know something he doesn't that will help the sound of his band.

GaryT

Rich Gordley wrote:

> Nancy Buckman wrote:
>
> >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
>
> You go, Nancy! When I taught Grade School band, I welcomed all the help I
> could get from private instructors. The attitude that THE local band
> director is the know-all, end-all for music instruction as portrayed by
> Meredith Wilson should be long gone. When I was teaching I made it my
> business to know who at least a few of the leading virtuosos were on each
> instrument so I could point kids to a model. This guy needs a major
> attitude adjustment. I wouldn't want to hear his band.
>
> Rich
>
> Ya Doesn't Has to Call Me Johnson!
>
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