Author: musiciandave
Date: 2007-06-21 12:03
A 'real' player could easily have an alcohol swab in his case for the chance to play a colleagues setup. Real world it probably doesn't happen for Pay to try Leister's setup and clean the reed, mouthpiece, but hopefully Leister is taking care when trying his students setup that it is clean. So it's just between Pay and Leister, not each and every student of Pay and each and every student of Leister. I've tried several major players (recording artists, Principal Big 5 Orchestra) setups and no, I didn't use a swab for theirs, they didn't use a swab for mine, but both of us assumed that we weren't harboring any illness.
You don't want to have to live life in a "bubble", but there are reasonable cares which can be taken when teaching students. Reminds me of the George Carlin joke about germs and building tolerance for them. He said that he used to as a kid swim in one of the big NYC rivers and got his immune system tempered in s*#&. There is something to be said for that.
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