Klarinet Archive - Posting 000150.txt from 2003/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: Chinese Clarinets
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 22:10:29 -0500

At 03:21 PM 1/7/2003 -0800, Avi Rostov wrote:
>Worse than having the parents feel foolish is having the parents not realize
>how foolish they are and sending their child off to school with a horn that
>doesn't work. Those kids think they can't do what all the other children
>sitting around them in beginning band can do. So, they quit and spend the
>rest of their lives with the gift of music replaced by the feeling that they
>are inadequate.

I think the vast majority of the kids who quit band do so for just that
reason. They really do not know enough (and unfortunately, often the band
director does not, either) to realize that there is something wrong with
their instrument, which can be the case even in good quality instruments,
especially used ones.. The deficiencies are often glaring enough on the
Chinese horns that they DO get brought in for repair, and that's when we
have to give them the bad news.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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