Klarinet Archive - Posting 000504.txt from 2003/07

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Rose Etude #8 (from 32) bar 10, last note: chromatic
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:18:15 -0400

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:57:14 -0500, forestaten@-----.net said:

> Marcellus had a huge aversion to using any "auxiliary" fingerings,
> unless completely unplayable using standard fingerings.
>
> His arguments were always:
> 1 better tone quality
> 2 better intonation
>
> Not to say he was always correct....it's was just his way.

Well, some others of us have an aversion to people reverently repeating
statements by 'authorities' that don't happen to be true statements --
like, that side F#s necessarily have poorer tone quality and intonation.

(It's just our way.)

On the other hand, I wonder whether Marcellus isn't being done a
disservice here. He may have had other motives.

Wittgenstein was apparently often horrified at how his method of doing
philosophy was misinterpreted by his students; and even I -- poor little
old me, outclassed in such August Company -- have sometimes been
horrified to hear what I am reported to have said you *have* to do in
order to play well.

A teacher might well insist that a student do something a particular way
because he or she can see that it will serve that student's long term
interests to be *able* to do it that way.

Then, doing it *another* way becomes an option rather than a necessity.

Tony
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