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Young student faints in lesson

Author: greenslater
Date: 2011-06-01 11:14

Today I had an unfortunate experience when teaching an 11 year old student - she has been playing for 3 years. She was playing through her scales and I had asked her to change onto a harder reed (a Rico royal 2.5). She sounded fine on it but did comment it was harder to blow and had a drink of water. A few minutes later after working consistently on the scales she looked blankly at me and fainted. Luckily I caught her (and the clarinet) and as I was sitting her down she fainted again. Her mother, who is a medical professional, was there and obviously we ended the lesson and after awhile she seemed fine but her mother did say she had never fainted before. (incidently the student is quite fit and athletic - a state rep runner)

Most of my students are high school aged. I've never had this happen before. Have others had similar experiences? I'm now quite reluctant to increase her reed strength, how do I know if I'm asking too much? Any other thoughts?

Thanks Brad

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