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Play Without Thumb Rest?

Author: abrogard
Date: 2019-08-16 02:25

Does anyone play without a thumb rest?

I'm not a musician. Just a beginning learner.

But I found I developed a large callus on my thumb and developed pain in my thumb, too.

And it all got worse and worse. Padding the rest and moving the rest didn't help.

So I took it off.

And I found I had to develop an entirely new way of holding the thing.

And I found the thumb moved into an entirely new position.

It now points upwards to take the weight of the clarinet and allow my hands to hold it and have a good grip on it.

Whereas, of course, before when using a thumb rest it pointed horizontally or even downwards.

Now I get no fatigue and have an entirely different feel about the whole thing. I literally feel I have a 'grasp' of the instrument.

I wonder. Does anyone else play without a thumb rest?

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