Klarinet Archive - Posting 000260.txt from 2003/10

From: Gilbert Guerrero <gilster@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] [clarinet] reeds for beginners?
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:13:49 -0400

Yes, it's true that you don't know what you will get with "Hey, Mom, can I
learn the clarinet?" All I was really suggesting was that saying every child
needs to start on a Rico 2 (or insert your conception of a soft reed) is an
oversimplification, in that no one was mentioning the interrelationship of
the system components.

Obviously, I can't generalize my adult starter experience to a child, but I
have watched my own instructor take a 7 year old and have them producing
tone in their first lesson on Vandy B45's and V12 - #3's.

I don't think a #3 or stiffer is any better than a #2 or softer, but I think
it is too easy to focus on the one piece that comes with an (imprecise)
category on the box.

On 10/8/03 11:13, the Carbon unit named "Ormondtoby Montoya"
<ormondtoby@-----.net> wrote:

> No argument; but as a practical matter, I wonder if many beginning
> students --- in the sense of "Hey, Mom, can I learn to play clarinet?"
> --- arrive with a close mouthpiece on which a #3 or stiffer would play
> easily?

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