Klarinet Archive - Posting 000402.txt from 2002/12

From: "Daniluk, Bill" <bdaniluk@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] FW: [kl] Switching to Legeres
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:36:21 -0500

> 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
...

What risk?
...
Perhaps the reason that your son "doesn't really like Légères" is that he
has
never tried the "cold turkey" approach. That was my experience.
BD

> 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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