Klarinet Archive - Posting 000641.txt from 2000/12

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Stand or Sit?
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 19:32:56 -0500

At 11:21 AM 12/12/00 -0500, you wrote:

>I don't want to get stuck feeling
>comfortable in only one position, so I alternate days. One day, I practice
>while standing, and the next day, I practice while seated. As a result, I
>truly don't have a preference on clarinet.

John Mohler used to have all of his undergraduate clarinet students
alternate sitting and standing in lessons. It was uncanny how well he
remembered - I would walk in, pull up a chair, and he would hang up the
phone and remind me it was a standing week.

Sincerely,
Roger Garrett

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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