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Author: Old Geezer
Date: 2007-04-01 15:58
A five year old clarinetist has a bit on YouTube...apparently a student of Michelle Gringas.
...look out Julian!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB2LnMja7NA
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2007-04-01 16:00
Old Geezer wrote:
> ...look out Julian!
Julian's 18 this year ... a bit far to look back 
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Author: Avie
Date: 2007-04-02 16:22
Not to worry Julian. I think it is possible for a 5 year old to play that good but his fingering does'nt seem to match the notes in the song. Maybe if he tapped his foot it would look more realistic but It is a cute idea and could be a boost of confidence to a young student. ![[huh]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie11.gif)
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2007-04-02 20:24
Hello Avie,
Are you saying that the boy wasn't playing?
Youtube doesn't broadcast in high enough definition to "trust" the visuals that you are seeing. The audio will always appear ahead of the video until the standard is increase. And considering Youtube's legal troubles they may never get there!
I thought the boy was playing pretty well.
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2007-04-02 21:38
For those of you who are skeptical, you can probably contact Michele Gingras, the poster, directly.
http://www.fna.muohio.edu/faculty/gingram/about/index.html
Her email address is given on the page with her biography. Which you might also want to read.
You also might want to note that Michele has posted numerous other excerpts on Youtube featuring the same youngster in the same room with the same instrument over the past year. And that the room in which the youngster appears seems to be the same room in which Ms. Gingras is pictured on the Miami University website.
Could this be her own child?
Susan
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Author: Avie
Date: 2007-04-02 22:28
Although I do question the authentisity of youtube productions I thought the 5 year old (whoever he may be) did a great job and I enjoyed it. Thanks old geezer.......Avie
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Author: Old Geezer
Date: 2007-04-03 17:03
There's a couple other bits of the 5 year old playing on YouTube.
In one of them he refuses to play a scale!
Is that an Eb clarinet?
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Author: joannew
Date: 2007-04-03 17:44
nice! He even seems to make eye contact with the pianist for the rit.
Very well taught!
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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2007-04-03 18:59
Unless it's a C, D or Eb clarinet, I would be doubtful if it's real, just on physical issues alone. I have never known a five year old child with hands big enough to make the hole spacing on a Bb soprano.
Doesn't mean that it couldn't happen, just that human factors mitigate against it.
leader of Houston's Sounds Of The South Dance Orchestra
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Author: grifffinity
Date: 2007-04-03 19:44
Has the kid lost his front teeth yet? I have never met a clarinetist who has started young enough to have this issue. Perhaps if Jullian Bliss is lurking he can address this question, as I think this issue would have occurred for him. Most kids start clarinet at 8 or 9, the earliest - therefore it is a moot point.
Overall, I don't find anything particularly special about the videos. Perhaps, when and if this kid is still playing at 10, we can begin to compare his accomplishments to Jullian - not yet. It's not how fast you get out of the gate, its how you run the race.
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Author: Old Geezer
Date: 2007-04-04 15:41
Re: YouTube video,
Hello D.L.
Louis has a lesson every other week in my studio at Miami University, and I can confirm that it is he playing "live" and in person on an Eb clarinet. I would not compromise my professional integrity as a college professor by posting a fake video online. If you look and listen very carefully, you will see that Louis is the one playing, it is so obvious! Additionally, I am working with Louis so that he will eventually sound much better than in the video!
Thank you for your comments regarding my website!
Professor Gingras
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2007-04-04 17:26
I don't doubt that it's real...
I am still wondering how Julian played and how Louis will play without the front teeth!!!!
No one has been able to answer for Julian when I've asked in the past!!!
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2007-04-04 18:16
Katrina wrote:
> No one has been able to answer for Julian when I've asked in
> the past!!!
I don't remember that coming up before (but I am getting too old to remember all quarter million posts ) - so I'll ask.
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2007-04-04 19:23
LOL Mark...I started a thread a few years ago asking how the heck he dealt with that...and nobody had an answer...
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2007-04-05 06:25
"I am still wondering how Julian played and how Louis will play without the front teeth"
Does anyone know/remember about what age the front teeth fall out? I started playing clarinet a few months before I was 7 and neither me or my parents (I asked) remember that being an issue. I just can't remember if my front teeth fell before or after that (I'm guesing before).
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Author: grifffinity
Date: 2007-04-05 06:51
clarnibass wrote:
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> Does anyone know/remember about what age the front teeth fall
> out?
Average age is 6:
http://www.dentalfind.com/glossary/baby_teeth_deciduous_teeth.html
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