Klarinet Archive - Posting 000327.txt from 2000/12

From: Sherry Mayrent <oyfpro@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 6 Dec 2000 09:12:38 -0000 Issue 2736
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:14:33 -0500

>on 12/4/00 1:13 PM, stewart kiritz wrote:
>
> >Actually, I suspect that the clarinet is a good instrument for an asthmatic,

Let me second that opinion. I developed asthma as an adult (I've been
playing the clarinet since I was 9), and though I was not playing for a
couple of years when I was first diagnosed, I've been playing ever since
and even turned professional. I play exclusively klezmer, which requires
mammoth amounts of wind (you have to be able to trill on high notes at top
volume over both repeats of a section of a tune and the like), and it
really isn't a problem except at the occasional outdoor gig on a hazy, hot
and humid summer day. In fact, my doctor told me one time that my being a
wind player will protect me from the worst ravages of the disease -- in
other words, I feel a lot worse than I usually am when I get a bad attack,
as opposed to people who ignore their symptoms and end up in an ER.

When I first started training for klezmer, I did breathing exercises with a
metronome, and those are exactly the sorts of things that doctors recommend
for people with asthma these days. Clearly, for me, at least, my clarinet
playing has been a big help in managing this condition, and the condition
has only minimally affected my clarinet playing.

Sherry Mayrent
Wholesale Klezmer Band
www.wholesaleklezmer.com

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