Klarinet Archive - Posting 000110.txt from 2002/09

From: "Kevin Fay" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] School
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 13:47:20 -0400

LeliaLoban@-----.com noted that:

<<<Kimber wrote about plans for the school year, involving flute, clarinet, wrestling, cheerleading and choir. Too much?>>>

Kimber - Take it from me - this is too much. You need to cut back.

Actually, you need to cut the flute back and play clarinet. The rest of that wrestling/cheerleading/choir thing is perfectly OK, as long as you remember that everything has its place - no wrestling the cheerleaders in choir practice!

In the interest of full disclosure, I'm not completely unbiased here; after all, you did ask the question on the klarinet list (what did you expect)? I've played some flute over the years, it always made me dizzy. Clarinet is better, stick with it.

[On a more serious note - as one who doubles, my opinion is that the clarinet should be the "fundamental" woodwind studied. IMHO, it's easier to "pick up" flute or saxophone when you've a core competnecy on clarinet; it's much less common for a flute or sax player to succesfully add clarinet to the arsenal later in life. Others may disagree, of course.]

Kimber sure sounds like a lazy underacheiver, destined for juvenile delinquency with all that spare time on her hands. If only some of that energy could be bottled up and transferred to the elderly (like me!)

Wistfully,

KJF

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