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Re: Decorating My Clarinet for Christmas Parade

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2013-12-12 04:08

When I was in the West Point Band, we did many outdoor Honor Guards (greeting a visiting general or dignitary). We wore white kid gloves with the fingertips cut off, but when the temperature got low, your fingers got too numb to feel the keys.

They issued cotton gloves with plastic on the fingertips, which made it possible to play, but didn't keep your hands warm. I got heavy knitted wool gloves and put them on with the plastic gloves over them. It wasn't easy to move my fingers, but I got used to it, and at least I could play and, more important, keep some sensation in my fingers.

Ken Shaw

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