Klarinet Archive - Posting 000445.txt from 2001/04

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Right Hand Thumb Position
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:53:53 -0400

At 04:16 PM 4/18/2001 -0400, Cass Hill wrote:
>Dee D. Hays wrote:
> >Actually the neck strap, once you are used to it, should improve your
> >playing as it stabilizes the instrument and reduces the tendency to bite
> >when playing as some players subconsciously do when when playing. The only
> >drawback I find is that during long rests in the band, I can't lay the
> >instrument on my lap but instead lean it against my shoulder. It's awkward
> >at first but after you get uysed to it, it's easy.
>
>To me that wouldn't be a drawback because if I lay the clarinet on my lap it
>gets water draining in the holes to make gargle noises. If it stay upright
>all the time then that is the end of the gargles.

It works fine if you rest the clarinet upright with the bell on your
knee. In the Saginaw Eddy Concert band, about HALF of us players use
straps, generally the Claricord. That new inexpensive Kooiman thumbrest
looks promising, too, although you can only use one or the other.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://homepages.go.com/~zoot14/zoot14.html
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

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