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“What would John Mohler do?” That is a question I ask myself often. My students don’t know this! It’s the voice in my head! When I am “stuck,” I think about what my former teacher at the University of Michigan would say or do. I have thought of him more lately. We lost him this …
Fundamental Work 1. Well developed air column is at the core of clarinet basics. Draw in the air slowly and expansively, through the mouth only, as a balloon fills with air. Open passageway. Think low “whoo….” in order to draw air to lower lungs and downward to avoid wispy, chest and lung breath. For practice, …
“The first lesson you teach is the most important lesson you will ever teach.” I can still hear Hugh Cooper’s voice in my head several decades later. Mr. Cooper was the esteemed bassoon professor at the University of Michigan when I was a student there in the early ‘90’s. While our class was about acoustics, …
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