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Author: William
Date: 2000-07-12 15:14
After only two days, the "woes of the clarinet" have beaten the "positives" and the "jokes" by about three to one. What does that say about us clarinetists? Are we basically musical masochists or what? IMHO, I think that we should all try to relax a bit more and not worry so much about every little technical problem and audience comment that we overhear or read. Take more time to enjoy the mystical art of making music. Sometimes the forest is so obscurred by the trees that we fail to truly see and enjoy it. Ok, enough of my ramblings. Back to those practice rooms and, good clarineting to all.
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Author: Ginny
Date: 2000-07-12 17:47
Newscasts also are negative, all those love songs are usually unrequited (how do you spell that) and all my friends complain for fun. No news is good news and good news is not news. Probably a human thing.
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Author: Bob the Composer
Date: 2000-07-12 21:01
Who's to say? Some are up, and some are down, but the Clarinets go both ways...... in the Twilight Zone.
Bob "the Composer" Serling
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2000-07-13 04:13
A formula exists about the result of a work by a person:
Expected result = IQ*(efforts+working environments+many others). As you see IQ multiplies to everything inside ( ),whereas the elements inside ( ) are only added individually.
Maybe a similar formula can be deducted about clarinet playing.
For example,
Performance=talent*IQ*relaxation*(effort + tooling + ....)
I am sure talent and IQ(mainly musical) multiplying factor.
Relaxation may also be. But it is function or results of efforts such as daily scale/arpeggio practices.
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Author: HTW
Date: 2000-07-14 03:38
Oh, it's nothing. We just enjoy complaining because if we all complain about the same thing we feel like a community. I don't think we actually mind that much, I don't at least.
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Author: Lelia
Date: 2000-07-14 11:56
Most of the "complaints" strike me as half-humorous or self-deprecating, not expressions of serious anger or misery. IMHO our society sends a mixed message -- promotes the idea of self-esteem, but also enforces a strong bias against people who seem to boast and sound vain about how wonderful and successful they are. By exaggerating the level of outrage about things like sitting in front of loud trumpet players, for instance, we're saying, in a backhanded and therefore acceptable way, that life's really pretty good. My 2 cents....
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Author: Bart
Date: 2000-07-14 12:40
William wrote:
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After only two days, the "woes of the clarinet" have beaten the "positives" and the "jokes" by about three to one. What does that say about us clarinetists?
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What it says? It's rather positive I think. If people respond to a question asking for the WOES of the clarinet with positives and jokes, instead of the agony stories one might expect, then this is obviously a demonstration of a sunny character.
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Author: Willie
Date: 2000-07-14 20:42
I think we as humans tend to remmember the bad more than good. Even if it was a miserable, challenging situation at the time, we can often look back at it and laugh now. Just listen to two grandmoms talk about raising their kids. They can laugh and tell of many things their kids put them through and alomost all were negative to disasterous at the time, but funny now.
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Author: Bob Gardner
Date: 2000-07-14 21:05
If the woes were really bad--they wouldn't have been listed on the board. Because the people with these feelings are no longer playing and since they are no longer playing they have left this group for other woes.
Woes is me--play on play on. William Snakenett.
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