Klarinet Archive - Posting 000348.txt from 2005/01

From: orm1ondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Neuroses (was Ligatures--Important?)
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:29:22 -0500


Ken Henderson wrote:

> go the the largest available music store and
> buy their 6 most expensive mouthpieces and
> place them in a bag. Then you were to go to a
> lake and rent a rowboat and row to the middle
> of the lake, blindfold yourself, and one by one
> throw five of the mouthpieces overboard. You
> then "practice like Hell" on the remaining one.

Any idea can be carried to extremes. Since equipment *does* have an
effect, there is also the idea of swimming upstream. It works for some
fish, I suppose; but the results are usually terminal.

Not experimenting at all is probably a bad idea as well.

You won't know the result of an experiment *immediately*. Going to a
store and trying something new is only the first step. You'll need to
use whatever you buy (if you buy something) for weeks or months in order
to adapt your technique to the new gizmo. A new piece of equipment may
--- or may not --- cause you to change your embouchure or breath support
or whatever else, and such changes don't happen instantaneously.

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