Klarinet Archive - Posting 000033.txt from 2002/02

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Stiff Finger joint
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 22:15:36 -0500

Welcome to Klarinet

Can you elaborate more specifically on "going stiff" and "won't" flex? Are
they just kind of caving in, or are they actually getting stuck in some way?

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mlmarmer [mailto:mlmarmer@-----.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 9:33 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Stiff Finger joint
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am new to this list.
>
> I have a question for anyone.
>
> I have been practicing the clarinet since Jan. 2 and havn't played since
> 1973, after taking taking lessons for 10 years!! The old Buffet R13 is
> still a great instrument.
>
> I have been doing long tones and scales and have pulled out the old Rubank
> Books and others to start working on fingering technic. Lips muscles are
> getting good and I am up to a 3.5 Mitchell Lurie reed. Can't do the old
> Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, like in 1973, but working on it!
> LOL! Maybe
> in a couple of years! Just saw Loren Kitt from the National Symphony play
> that last month in Rockville, MD.
>
> However, I am having the last joint of the two lower fingers,
> that work the
> lowest tone hole and the 4 keys below that hole, going stiff and wont flex
> at times. Will that disappear in time, with practice? Any suggestion on
> how to work on that?
>
> Thanks for any responses,
>
> Mike Marmer
> Germantown, MD
>
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