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From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
Newsgroups: net.music,net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Never underestimate children...
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Date: Tue, 8-May-84 12:56:39 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  8 12:56:39 1984
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I taught a 12-year old clarinettist who had been studying for 3 years
before he came to me.  After three months (THREE MONTHS!!) I realized that
he could not read music AT ALL.  He did not know the notes, the rests,
the rhythms, time signatures, or anything.

He was too embarrassed to admit this.  What he did was to persuade his
teacher to play everything for him, a little at a time.  He had a 
perfect memory for anything that I played.  Until I caught him, I thought
that he was just a slow starter on each new piece.  He seemed never to
practice anything until he had had it for 2 lessons.
					- Toby Robison (not Robinson!)
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