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Re: minor details

Author: JTJC
Date: 2019-11-03 01:08

Around 1974 I was having lessons with John McCaw, then principal clarinet of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London. He was very interested in the technical aspects of the clarinet and mouthpieces. I believe he taught Louis Rossi at the a
Royal College of Music and also stimulated his interest in the mechanical/technical aspects of the clarinet. John always kept a fully assembled clarinet on a stand next to his fireplace. He used to use it during lessons, rather than get his ‘working’ clarinets out. He was practising on it when I arrived for a lesson one day. However, I never saw that fire alight.

Also, once after a lesson with John I was pulling through my clarinet, from the top joint to bottom (and out the bell). He noticed and pointed out I was doing it the wrong way. He said I should do it from bell to upper joint. I told him there was a reason for doing it the way I had, but couldn’t recall it at the time. I later remembered, it was Thea King who had told me to do it that way. The idea being that the top joint was the wetter, so by pulling through from that joint to the relatively drier lower joint you were getting a more equal distribution of the moister in the wood.

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