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need help teaching

Author: Jim
Date: 1999-06-28 19:35

I am trying to teach my daughter (10) to play the
clarinet. After a couple weeks she has the left hand
notes under control, does great at sight reading, and has
suprisingly good tone.

She is getting discouraged at the difficulty of playing
the right hand notes, though. She can't seem to get
her right index finger on the hole without hitting the
side key.

I am at a loss as to how to best help her. When I play,
my right elbow has a right angle bend in it. Her arms are
so much shorter that her right elow is much closer to being
straight meaning that her fingers hit the clarinet at an
angle that makes it difficult to snake around the side keys.

I have tried to move here wrist and fingers into a better
position, but it feels like they really don't want to go
that way. Should I consider a smaller clarinet? Is there
such a thing? (Are E-flats smaller or bigger?) Any other
ideas?

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