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RE: how do you use your clarinexpertise?

Author: Shelly
Date: 2001-04-14 19:03

Wow! This thread is fascinating! Well let's see, I played clarinet for 6 years, grades 7 thru 12. I graduated high school in 1980. I became a deputy sheriff and the clarinet sort of took a back seat. I did play at home for my own entertainment but nothing serious. By 1990 I pretty much had stopped playing and I sold my clarinet. I didn't think I would be playing anymore. I was enjoying being a deputy and worked a lot of overtime (I was a Traffic Homicide Investigator). Well, I got married in 1991 and had baby #1 in 1992. Now I have 4 children of my own and one stepdaughter

I retired from being a deputy when I had the first baby and became a full time stay at home mom. I have been VERY busy the last 9 years with these kids! (I homeschool all 5 kids as well)

My 2nd girl, Katie, showed a real interest in music at an early age. She is fascinated with classical music and listens to it all the time and she has researched all of the major composers lives (She is 7). Since I homeschool the kids, her love of music is easily worked into her regular schoolwork

Anyway, she is taking piano lessons and she is excelling. I really wanted to be able to accompany her and I desperately wanted my old clarinet back.

I have recently purchased a clarinet and I should receive it this coming week. I can't want to get started! I inherited an Eb soprano flute and I am trying to do something with it. My oldest girl plays around with the recorder a bit but it is too much like work to suit her (She doesn't like anything that remotely resembles work!)

I am capable of playing the soprano recorder and I am thinking about trying some of the other recorders available for variety.

I am trying to get the other kids interested in music. We watch very little TV so I try and have background music playing in the house (classical, some jazz, bluegrass, I try and have a balance of different styles). All the kids are taught music theory and my three girls sing in the Children's Choir at church.

I guess my contribution is to instill the love of music (or at least foster it's natural development) in my children. Homeschooling has been a wonderful opprotunity to do that.

Shelly

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