Klarinet Archive - Posting 000480.txt from 2004/02

From: "Rebecca Brennan" <u_cant_kill_the_rooster@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Costco Clarinets!!!
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 13:47:16 -0500

My band director tells us stories about when she goes to help with other
bands. She was telling us that she went to this one middle school and saw
this girl sitting there with a bright blue clarinet. When she asked the band
director about that, the band director told her that the clarinetist that
plays the most scales gets to play that THING all week. Then I raised my
hand and asked if it was a JinYin and we started laughing...really hard.

-Rebecca

>From: Nancy Buckman <eefer@-----.net>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Costco Clarinets!!!
>Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:10:23 -0500
>
>At 08:28 PM 2/26/2004, you wrote:
>>Here's the gold-plated version of these "clarinets".
>
>
>I beg to differ here. The JinYin clarinet is not the best instrument to be
>buying, but at least it plays reasonably well. The Simba and First Act
>instruments don't even work. I have one student playing a JinYin and he is
>doing OK. The instrument plays well enough for him to progress on for now.
> I have told his parents that he will need something better in about a
>year's time, but for now his bright green JinYin will do. I am not pushing
>JinYin here, just saying that the one my student is playing isn't too bad
>as a starter. The problem with it though, is that you can't advance very
>far with it. It won't accept a better mouthpiece and is very difficult to
>play above the staff (the latter might be fixable - I haven't wasted any
>energy trying though).
>
>Nancy
>
>Nancy Buckman
>Principal Clarinet / Orchestra AACC
>eefer@-----.net
>
>
>
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