Klarinet Archive - Posting 000623.txt from 2004/03

From: Im bibess <imbibess@------.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Teaching clarinet embouchure to Asian students
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:22:13 -0500


Forest Aten,

Exactly, You, yes, You, Forest Aten, so thoroughly
mis-read my mail.
i was responding to Audrey's email about her problems
with teaching embouchure to Asian students.
Asian students definitely have no problems with this
'loose' embouchure problem, and i think you should
re-read my mail to see how i typed in my mail----that
1) Chinese words require some form of tight-lipping
and 2) even if no tight-lipping is required, Chinese
students can play the clarinet as well, if not
,better, than their Caucasian or Malay or Indian
fellow clarinetists.

Please open your eyes more carefully in future and do
not sprout nonsence like this--obviously (DUH!) i was
referring to how problem-free teaching most Asian
students are, instead of how unproblem-free the
teaching goes.

Candice Tan

--- Dallas SCUBA <forest_aten@------.com>
wrote: >
>
> Tan Shuwen Candice,
>
> I have had many Asian students pass through my
> studio over the years and
> I've not experienced this "loose" embouchure issue.
> As a matter of fact,
> most of the Asian students I've taught have had
> perfectly formed embouchures
> and have had great success playing clarinet.
>
> I might add that my Asian students, in general,
> practice on a more regular
> basis and more effectively. I attribute this to the
> fact that (in our
> community at least) these students have a strong
> family support group. I
> very often have a father or a mother sit through an
> entire lesson with the
> younger kids and I hear from parents often even as
> the kids get older.
> Having the encouraging/supportive home environment
> is a big plus. This is
> true no matter what
> cultural/ethnic/whatever/wherever/whenever a student
> arrives in my studio.
>
> Forest Aten

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