Klarinet Archive - Posting 000316.txt from 2003/08

From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] SPOZED to? Was "The Lure of Certainty"
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:50:43 -0400

At 08:19 AM 8/12/03, you wrote:
>Ooh, ooh!! Me! Me! I have a perfect example of this physical limitation
>affecting how you're SPOZED to do stuff. When I was just a lil tyke my
>hands were really, really small. They still are, but at least nowadays
>they're proportional to the rest of me. anyway, when I was little I
>couldn't really reach B with my left hand so I learned to typically play C
>on the left and B on the right. It wasn't until I started studying with Mr.
>Krive (oop, I mean Kent-someday I'll get this first name basis thing) that I
>learned you are SPOZED to do it the other way around. I still do it "wrong"
>but I've been doing it for so long that it no longer negatively affects my
>playing. What about y'all? anybody else still doing things "wrong"?
>
>Have a Nice Day!!
> Wendy :)

I, too, have always played that way. The only problem is that I have to
mark passages which must start the other way around (because of the D#/G#)
although I breeze through passages which others have marked to tell them to
reverse THEIR instinctive reactions. So when using music they have marked,
I have to re-mark it.

I think in my case the choice of fingering came from a mis-adjusted horn
(metal, school rental) on which the left-hand B/E didn't seal properly,
while the right hand lever would force the pad down. Of such things are
habits made!

George

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