Klarinet Archive - Posting 000462.txt from 2002/12

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re:Intonation and allergies
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:51:57 -0500

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 03:52:40 +0000, "Natilius Theresius Visagius"
<brazilian_penguins@-----.com> wrote:
>
>Secondly, I'm helping out one of my fellow clarinets with her chair audition
>tape that we have to make over the holiday break. I noticed today that she
>was on a plastic-coated reed (which neither I nor my band director care
>for). I told her she should probably play on regualar reeds, but she
>explained to me that her skin becomes highly agitated and breaks out, which
>causes her great pain (there's even a scar right where the mouthpiece rests
>on her lip). Does anyone know if there is a cure (or even what the problem
>is)?

It seems to me that she has already managed to find an acceptable cure on her
own. I'm not sure why you want to mess with it. The Plasticovers are
perfectly adequate reeds that respond very much like cane. Several of the
players in my community band use them, and I keep a few on-hand for
emergencies. Unless you have some strong suspicion that the Plasticovers are
hampering her development (which I strongly doubt), in my humble opinion, you
should not allow your prejudice to get in the way of a perfectly fine
adaptation.

>...Or maybe there is some kind of tape or cover of
>some sort that she could place on her lip?

She HAS that: the plastic coating of the reed.

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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