Klarinet Archive - Posting 000033.txt from 2010/02

From: "rien stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] Lyons clarinet
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:33:15 -0500


Tim Roberts wrote
<<
This is interesting to me. What is your experience in teaching with the
Lyons clarinet? Have you found any issues in transitioning these young
people from a Lyons clarinet to a traditional clarinet?
>>

This seven years old girl is up till now the only student I have playing a C
clarinet. All other pupils I ever had, were using the common B-flat. One
still had the German (Albert-) system, but that was no big problem: I played
Albert clarinets the first ten years I played clarinet. And fortunately I
still possessed a book from those first years with a fingering table.

But the young girl still plays the C-clarinet, and does a good job on it.
The sound of this clarinet of course is not very good, and mixes in with the
rest of the "orchestra" (seven children, one adult, also a student of mine)
only poorly, but she enjoys it and the poor mixing in is till a bit too high
for these students, so it doesn't really matter.

In about a year she probably will have hands large enough to handle an E-11,
and then I can tell you more.

Rien

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