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Re: Blowing air being blocked on G5

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-07-18 05:15

kj2008, at this point there are only two ways you're going to get a solution to this problem. Either (a) you'll get lucky one day and find a cause in something your fingers are doing, something you can do or not do deliberately or (b) you'll get someone who knows how to play clarinet to watch you and perhaps see the cause. This is something that should take an experienced teacher watching you in person 5 or so minutes to fix. Then you can spend the rest of an hour's lesson discussing other clarinet problems and go on your way.

I'm not being critical. It's just that this kind of problem shouldn't need a month of searching for a solution or, at least, a cause that you can work on avoiding.

Lessons with good teachers don't have to be - shouldn't be - lifetime commitments. You don't need weekly lessons to find a cause of so specific a problem as this. But all the long distance guessing combined with all of your own promising but apparently unproductive solutions have left you, evidently, with the same problem after a whole month.

Of course, not all repair people are equally thorough. It's still possible there's something in the mechanism that this repair person doesn't see, doesn't feel when he plays and, therefore, can't fix. And sometimes an individual person's physical characteristics - e.g. thick or short fingers - can cause difficulties that can be compensated for by tweaks in the key work by a skilled tech or player. A good teacher could act as a second opinion there as well.

Karl

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