Klarinet Archive - Posting 000100.txt from 2001/04

From: howard klug <hklug@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] fingering options for beginners with small hands
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 09:46:07 -0400

Anne:

I think you're better off to let the little hands go where they may.
"Necessity is the mother of invention." You're right in suggesting that
these fingering choices are driven by immediate needs (potential), and
that enforcing uncomfortable stretches before the hands are sufficiently
large is not a wise choice. Change the fingerings when the kids are
older. Another possibility is one that I remember from some inherited
kids I took on 25 years ago at Fresno State U. from Russ Howland...to use
one set of fingerings on uphill passages (perhaps the ones your students
are used to) and different fingerings downhill (the new ones you're trying
to change to). My guess is that crossing the middle register break
downwards with new fingerings is easier than attempting that uphill.

And is always the case, just because a student is doing something
differently than their teacher (and seems to be successful doing so), is
no reason for changing it.

Howard

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