Klarinet Archive - Posting 000603.txt from 2003/10

From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] RE: Starting a youngster
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:01:57 -0400

From: "Stacy-Michelle"

<<<I wish I had started at 7,>>>

Why? There often is an assumption that if a child begins to play a
musical instrument at a very young age, or to read when they are 3 years
old, the ultimate result will be that they will play better, or read
better, when they are adults. This is probably not true.

One of the best music programs in this part of the world offers
beginning instrumental instruction starting in the 7th grade, while most
others start in the 5th grade. Those who begin in the 7th grade will
play as well at the end of their 8th grade year as those who started two
years earlier.

Ed Lacy
University of Evansville

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