Klarinet Archive - Posting 000096.txt from 2010/02

From: Martin Baxter <martinbaxter1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Lyons clarinet
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:04:50 -0500

I had some success with starting pupils on the Lyons but for their first ensemble experience I moved them to E flat, which they managed rather well in al cases except one.
I do not accept that the sound of the instrument is poor. I find that the Lyons produces a much better sound than does my old Hawkes C.
Martin
On 3 Feb 2010, at 16:33, rien stein wrote:

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> Tim Roberts wrote
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> 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?
>>>
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Rien
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