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 Every Musician's Nightmare
Author: Ken Shaw 2017
Date:   2004-05-03 16:59

Alex Klein, the principal oboist in the Chicago Symphony, has been forced to retire at age 39 by focal dystonia, a neurological disorder in the brain, not related to overuse.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/delacoma/sho-sunday-klein02.html

He's a truly wonderful player. Even the best can be struck down in their prime.

Ken Shaw

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 Re: Every Musician's Nightmare
Author: Anon 
Date:   2004-05-03 17:42

How incredibly devastating. He is truly one of the finest musicians I've ever heard.

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 Re: Every Musician's Nightmare
Author: Katrina 
Date:   2004-05-03 18:19

Wow...I'm soooo sad for him. I knew him while I was at Oberlin and he was working on the Artist Diploma there. He is one of the absolutely sweetest and nicest guys there is.

I wish him the best...

Katrina

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 Re: Every Musician's Nightmare
Author: diz 
Date:   2004-05-04 02:20

Having just read the entire article ... it would seem Mr. Klein has made the most of a thoroughly dreadful situation.

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 Re: Every Musician's Nightmare
Author: claclaws 
Date:   2004-05-04 03:32

Best wishes for Mr.Klein.
Thanks for the article.

Lucy Lee Jang


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 Re: Every Musician's Nightmare
Author: FrankM 
Date:   2004-05-04 15:29

I wonder if the disorder is actually more common , but only musicians , due to the required hand/ finger dexterity, would be so aware of the onset of the symptoms?

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 Re: Every Musician's Nightmare
Author: Alseg 
Date:   2004-05-04 18:38

I followed the link to the part about Botox injection in the brain....(re Leon Fleischer) . But I thought that botulism toxin worked at the nerve-muscle junction. Any other info. out their?
If I come up with anything else on a Medline search I will post it.

BTW I strongly suggest a listen to Alex Kein's Bach recording. My teacher (whose* SO is oboist) had me listen to it....astounding.


*whose or who's??(sp)


Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
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 Re: Every Musician's Nightmare
Author: diz 
Date:   2004-05-04 23:02

whose indeed (who's = who is) but hey, let's not get tied up in the peculiarities of grammar!!

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 Re: Every Musician's Nightmare
Author: Alseg 
Date:   2004-05-05 03:43

There is nothing wrong with my grammar.....she is doing fine with her new hip.
Mrs. Malaprop has nothing on me since she got bitten by an allegory.

ON A MORE SERIOUS NOTE...SOME LITERATURE ABOUT FOCAL DySTONIA

A brief medline search yield these tidbits:

Apparently there are some new findings incriminating a disorder in the gene that transcribes for a dopamine neuro receptor.

Botulism toxin has been injected in the muscles that are involved...BUT...resistance to therapy can occur due to the development of antibodies. I did not come up with any intracranial injection data.

Another finding is an overexcitement of the involved cortex (brain) from SENSORY input which results in an {overfiring} of the elicited motor response.

Also GABA changes have been noted on MRIstudies

A paper from the Cleveland clinic that might shed more light:
Long-term outcome of focal dystonia in instrumental musiciansAdv Neurol 2004;94:261-6 (ISSN: 0091-3952)
Schuele SU; Lederman RJ

Likewise:
The natural history of embouchure dystonia

Mov Disord 2001 Sep;16(5):899-906 (ISSN: 0885-3185)
Frucht SJ; Fahn S; Greene PE; O'Brien C; Gelb M; Truong DD; Welsh J; Factor S; Ford B
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, The Neurological Institute, New York, New York 10032, USA.


Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-





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 Re: Every Musician's Nightmare
Author: LeOpus1190s 
Date:   2004-05-07 21:33

Poor Mr. Klein, I will miss hearing him play. I was sad for several days at the news of this.

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