Klarinet Archive - Posting 000046.txt from 2005/11

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: A very unusual performance of Mozart's K. 297b
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 00:00:39 -0500

It seems to me that I read once that Liszt decided to stop performing
for a year or so because he couldn't any longer play 6ths
properly. And I recall a concert violinist whose name escapes me
stopping performances for a while because of a "palsy" in one of his
hands. It's not an unusual affliction. When I was younger I had a
problem with my left hand. Pens and pencils would fly out of it
while I was writing, so I began to teach myself to write right
handed. When my brain told my left hand that I was on to its
mischief, the problem went away. In my case I was pretty sure at the
beginning it was psychosomatic. I've been something of a life-long
hypochondriac. Something I have to live with.

Oliver

At 05:38 PM 11/3/2005, you wrote:
>I think this is also what has relegated Gary Grafman to one-hand
>repertoire for many years. I also know two clarinetists who have had
>to stop playing because of it. One of these players told me that one
>explanation is that it's at least partly a type of repetitive
>stress injury. Made me wonder if the people who develop it just
>practice too much (well, avoiding it makes a good excuse for those
>of us who don't practice enough).
>
>Karl Krelove

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