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Re: buffet festival

Author: David Peacham
Date: 2003-12-07 18:43

Sounds to me like your teacher is very dogmatic.

Why are you not allowed anything but Buffet? Plenty of pros use other instruments (though it certainly seems that there's a lot of pro-Buffet bias in the USA, so maybe your teacher is just being pragmatic.)

Why do you need an Eb lever? Plenty of pros manage very well without. Is your teacher advising it just because she has one? Or is it something about your playing, or the shape of your fingers, which makes her think that you in particular would benefit?

Contragirl - I have to disagree with you over mouthpieces, whatever David Pino may say. I have just bought a new instrument. I had intended to do what Pino suggests, to try instruments with my existing mouthpiece. However, I found that this mouthpiece, which works OK with my old clarinet, was flat and out of tune on every new instrument I tried. Now maybe what I should have done was just to buy a new mouthpiece and put the instrument purchase on hold.

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If there are so many people on this board unwilling or unable to have a civil and balanced discussion about important issues, then I shan't bother to post here any more.

To the great relief of many of you, no doubt.

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