Klarinet Archive - Posting 000448.txt from 2001/10

From: "Don Hatfield" <dhatfield310@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Water
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 12:10:37 -0400

After some more thought on this idea, I remembered that my clarinet
instructor in college, who studied with Stubbins and worked some with Frank
Kaspar while an MA and doctoral candidate at Michigan, never took a reed off
his mouthpiece unless it either gave up the ghost or needed some adjustment.
He made (and still makes) his reeds, and I think he had either figured on
his own or learned from someone along the way that this particular habit
worked. He still follows the same practice. I'll make a point of asking his
thoughts on this when I talk with him this next week while he's back home.

On a humorous side of this idea, I have managed a music store now for about
ten years and work in our repair shop, and if you could see some of the
things I have had to look at that come out of the cases of beginning and
even some advanced students who leave THEIR reeds on the mouthpiece all the
time...you'd appreciate the post here the other day about microbioligists
and cleaning methods...and then I try to remember what I did when I was nine
and first learning to play...hmmmm.

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