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Re: Practicing on 'bad' clarinet

Author: Copland
Date: 2008-08-11 22:33

Yeah, I guess my take on the situation is pretty standard.

BTW, I don't really consider myself a beginner (I've been playing for almost 7 years), but I think it would be exceptionally frustrating for a beginner to try to learn on a badly maintained horn. I know that personally I probably wouldn't have stuck with the clarinet if I hadn't had a good horn from the beginning.

Jack White (of the rock band The White Stripes) uses very old equipment that is particularly prone to failure because he says it keeps him on his toes and improves his playing on quality instruments. I took this approach when I learned guitar (or at least used the idea to justify buying a poor quality guitar

), and I think that once I moved to a better guitar the improvement was pretty much instantaneous.

Perhaps it's different, though, with wind instruments, given that they are typically much more complex mechanically than guitars.

Just some food for thought, I wasn't really trying to make any points.

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