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Author: Jeff
Date: 2004-12-07 00:53
I could not belive what happened to me yesterday. Well this weekend all state trys outs are coming up and man I'AM NERVOUS, but a strange chain of events in my favor has happened(though one of them I really don't like and I wish it didn't happen) One. I found a 5-7 year old van 3 1/2 reed that I have never used that was made before I hated vandoren(before they changed) Two. after having a on phone clarinet playing contest with a friend in nashville I all the sudden can reed music A WHOLE LOT BETTER!(I can't belive what im able to play now, the day before I tried the same song and I didn't have a chance but now I can play it) and three. the one I don't like, one of my biggest challanges, the 2nd chair clarinet player in the 1st band is in the hospital,(at least from what I heard) now don't think I like this, I hope she is ok even though I have no idea what happened. Anyways with the return of a decent reed and the sudden jump in my reading skills, my chances for all state look brighter!(btw if any of you have any other stories that invoule unexplained jumps in skill I would like to hear them, POST)(still trying to figure out how he got better but doesn't care XD)
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Author: mkybrain
Date: 2004-12-07 00:59
i get there the old fashioned way, i work at it, though after 10 minutes of sight reading duets with my teacher every lesson, my sight reading improved by a huge jump
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Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2004-12-07 01:29
Re: Two. If you played it before, of course you can play it better now. That's called learning.
Re: Three. Elimination of the competition always helps. Yes...![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif)
Steve Epstein
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Author: akronclarinet
Date: 2004-12-07 17:55
as for #1: In the book "The Clarinet and Clarinet Playing" by David Pino, it is said that you should age your reeds for at least 2 years before they are ready to be played. This is apparently because they are "too green" they haven't had enough time to age from when they were cut. I believe it also said that they used to age the reeds for years, then pick the best of them to ship out. Whatever happened to those days? I'd sure like a box of those reeds. Anyway, this seems hardly practical, reeds are expensive, and I'm poor. I don't want to buy a box just to put it away and forget about it for 2 years. That and the fact that even if I started right now, I wouldnt have "good" reeds for a performance for quite some time. Oh well, thats probably the best explaination of what happened with your 5-7 year old reed.
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