Author: Patrick Sikes
Date: 2014-02-18 00:20
I realize that, Mr. Palanker. Thus, my inclusions of "extremely trivial" and "wasting your time."
An overly-equipment-obsessed student asked, and I did not know. It seemed to be a "good" design that I was unfamiliar with.
Sometimes, I find slight experimentation, as .01% of any time I spend with my instrument, to be immensely rewarding in the exploration of one's voice, beyond "good" and "bad," or isolationist ideas of "schools" that to me seem ridiculous.
Granted, it's all within ourselves, and our own ears, lungs, mouths, throats (etc.), but in making certain things easier, and certain things more resistant...perhaps we can break our own barriers, and let our own thoughts and feelings shine a bit more. Or, rather, .01% more. But what is art but the fine details?!
I consider it wine-tasting, in the very slight colors able to be obtained. Ridiculous in its own right, but something I personally tend to enjoy...every once in a very long while. And at the very least, it can further allow me to explain my own preferences beyond that of what is told to me from the fount of knowledge by my omniscient teacher.
Useful to win an orchestral chair? Obviously not, but surely there are other objectives for those who pursue our instrument's abilities and limitations.
And while this dancing-about-architecture may simply be more triviality-within-triviality...I think that's the entire nature of this site (which I, again, personally enjoy!)
That being said, I do find (as probably so many of you do) a culture of equipment-in-substitution-of-practice to be eternally hindering our latest generation of players, thus I appreciate the almost compulsory regiment of such postings. Just thought I'd play devil's advocate for a (not) short bit.
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I'd look forward to hearing Mr. Rusinek in ANY orchestra or setting! To my ears (here we go again with opinions that are so taboo in this site), he has among the most substantial, projecting, colorful, tangible, heartfelt, non-isolationist sounds I have ever heard. And an agility and energy that appeals to not just clarinet-pedagogical ears. Something that I think this world needs much more of. Let the quartering begin! (what a show!)
And many thanks, Dr. Segal, for your detailed answer! :-)
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