Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-08-14 19:17
The problem I encounter with slings is that they're usually anchored to the thumbrest, causing the mouthpiece to tip away and the bell to drop, and most people that use them don't have them adjusted as well as they could, though there's only so much that can be done considering how and where they're attached to the clarinet.
If the attachment was fitted below the thumbrest (at a better point of balance) then it would get in the way of the right thumb, or the right thumb would get in the way, depending on your viewpoint.
Now it's totally impractical, but the best way is to suspend the clarinet from above - but that would involve either a hook in the ceiling with a rope-and-pulley type arrangement, or wearing a head brace or a chair back attachment with a crane-style arm from which the clarinet is suspended from, but then the sling would have to be attached on top of the clarinet, and probably at the same point as one of the RH fingerholes.
But I have tried the FHRED and found it much better in terms of both suppore and posture, and better for anyone recovering from a fractured arm, anyone with osteoporosis or any other condition where they'd find the weight and strain of simply holding a clarinet a challenge.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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