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Re: urge to learn clarinet

Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2020-09-26 23:11

I noticed this article earlier today and really enjoyed it. The man is taking the mickey out of himself, saying that learning to play the clarinet is a bit of a silly mid-life crisis activity and that he would probably be more useful at a barbeque if he was learning the guitar.

I really enjoyed the article though as I'm also a midlife crisis learner and it means the whole world to me to be learning to play, even though I am in my forties. I was a comically bad musician when I was young and somehow being a bit older seems to mean that the necessary skills have now kicked in (including saying "no" to music teachers, which is really important.)

I wished that I could have written back to him and said "Do it!".

He bought a plastic clarinet because he was worried that he wouldn't last at it and didn't want to sacrifice a rainforest tree unless he was sure he would persist, which I thought was a good point. I didn't realise that my wooden clarinet was from a rainforest tree until I got it home and discovered the tree's name in the user manual. (oh the shame...)

Basically though the guy is high-fiving the clarinet community in a very public way, which I also thought was nice, especially when the folks who sell and maintain clarinets and those who play in public are kind of up against it.

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