Klarinet Archive - Posting 000038.txt from 2002/02

From: "mlmarmer" <mlmarmer@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Stiff Finger joint
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 22:37:53 -0500

Karl,

Thanks for responding to me.

The joint (last joint on each finger) on the pinkie and finger next to it,
will sometime "lock-up", causing problems to work those notes using those
keys and tone hole, on the right hand and no, I do not have arthritis.

I hope this is a little clearer.

Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subject: RE: [kl] Stiff Finger joint

> 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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