Klarinet Archive - Posting 000401.txt from 2002/12

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Switching to =?UNKNOWN?Q?L=E9g=E8re?=
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:30:31 -0500

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Daniluk, Bill wrote:

> If discipline yourself to NOT play a cane reed for several
> weeks, you can make the adjustment.

No professional or student can take that risk for such a long time, but
...

> If you continue to play on cane while
> you're trying to adjust (unless you have a will of iron), you will never
> give the Légère the chance to show its capabilities.

I've not seen that to be true in the few cases I'm familiar with. I know
that Richard Hawkins never went exclusively to the Legere while working
with the company, and my son, who rarely if ever played a Legere, ended up
$2000 richer via winning a competitive scholarship when he used a Legere
in an absolute emergency for the audition. My son still doesn't really
like the Legere, but it saved his a** _that_ day.

Mark C.

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