Klarinet Archive - Posting 000515.txt from 2000/12

From: Sterkel Terrance-W15462 <T.Sterkel@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] elbow pain
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 08:51:02 -0500

the cheapest I found at WW&BW has elastic like below. As I did not
know what I was doing, I got it instead of the fancy one. =20
Prognosis: With the elastic neck strap, and keeping my elbow in
I eliminated the forearm pain, mostly. =20
A side benefit is that my embouchure is now consistent, and not
as dependant on how tired/hurting my right hand/arm/elbow is!
I am keeping it, at least until the elastic stretches too long!
best wishes,
terry

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Terry Sterkel, P.E.
Motorola Personal Communications Sector
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: -----Original Message-----
: From: Tony@-----.uk]
: Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 5:58 AM
: To: klarinet@-----.org
: Subject: Re: [kl] elbow pain
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: On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 14:00:08 -0800 (PST), Bilwright@-----.net said:
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: > Tony=A0Jones wrote:
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: > > am now experiencing a pain in my right elbow, that I suspect is a
: > > result of supporting the weight of the clarinet in an =
unaccustomed
: > > position.
: >
: > Several suggestions, from another beginner:
: >
: > (1) most music stores stock clarinet straps to help with=20
: this problem;
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: I'd recommend trying elastic tape, before, or even instead of =
spending
: any money, as in:
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: http://www.sneezy.org/Databases/Logs/1998/09/001112.txt
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: > (4) is your entire body tense, or perhaps just your arms and
: > shoulders, thereby causing your opposing muscles to tie=20
: themselves in
: > knots and to put undue strain on your joints;
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: This is a possibility. It didn't apply to the modern clarinet, but =
it
: may be indicative of something that I experienced problems=20
: with my right
: elbow while playing my Simiot copy. I eventually realised that the
: difficulty lay in the fact that the orientation of the hole covered =
by
: my RH little finger on this system meant that that finger had to be
: *straight*. Reorienting the hole, by building up one side of it with
: Araldite, cured the problem, because my little finger could then be
: curved, and still cover the hole.
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: Keeping a finger straight as you use it requires opposing muscles, =
and
: when the need for that was removed, the difficulty with my elbow went
: away.
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: And on modern instruments sometimes people do play with=20
: overly straight
: fingers, even though that's obviously not required in the=20
: little fingers
: in order to operate keys.
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: Tony
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