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Re: Tone whole size

Author: donald
Date: 2023-03-26 03:10

There was a Korean company making clarinets with the right hand tone holes smaller- especially for young students. Can't remember the name and haven't seen them for about 10 years.
One student of mine, 11 years old and quite small, plays a Yamaha CX wooden clarinet that is way to big and heavy for his hands. His dad, a former clarinet player, has put black tape over the bottom 1/4 of the lowest open hole to make is easier for RH3 to cover the hole.
At first I was quite skeptical (esp as this would compromise the tone/tuning of low A) but actually it worked fine, and the student made good progress over a year, until he no longer needed the tape there. It worked and I was wrong!

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