Meri’s Musical Musings

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*To my first clarinet teacher, who completely convinced me that this is true*     Clarinetists can have several kinds of playing problems: they can have poor tone quality, getting the notes in the clarion or altissmo register, connecting the chalumeau and clarion registers, tone quality of the throat tones, tonguing, wide intervals, and tuning. In [...]

Roots of breathing problems in playing wind instruments

Posted by: clariniano on: April 4, 2009

Some wind players complain that they have little endurance. Most endurance problems can be traced to several types of poor breathing habits: whether they breathe from the nose, poor embouchure, breathing from the neck, shoulder lifting, not knowing where to breathe in the music, choking off the sound at the embouchure or waist, and holding [...]

Why keyboard classes are better than recorder classes

Posted by: clariniano on: March 30, 2009

In many schools, class recorder instruction happens, for most students, sometime between Grade 1 and Grade 4. I am proposing that quality class keyboard instruction, as a few public, a few Catholic, and many private schools do, is a much better alternative to learning the recorder at these grades. The seven reasons I present have [...]


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