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Church of Jeff (jeffowski@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 00:18:40 JST Church of Jeff

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When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which is grows, not the flower.
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1. hergand16 My fiance played the clarinet when he was in school. When he was first learning to play, he rented an instrument from the school to learn on. He was the last chair clarinet, had been for years, because he could not make notes that required the register key. For years, they kept making him do embrature exercises and he started to get a few notes, with lots of effort. Eventually he had to get private lessons to stay in band. Every time he tells me this story, his frustration by this point in the story, years later, is evident. He still sounds frustrated by it, despite all the time that passed. Teachers had been giving him crap for years because he hadn't been making much progress with the instrument. When he got to the private instructor, she acknowledged his frustration, and asked him to try to play for her. He did, and she saw all he was doing. She then did something no one else had done before. She asked him to put his mouthpiece on a different clarinet and try to play the same notes. Like magic, it worked. She looked at the clarinet he had been using and found that the school's clarinet needed it's pads replaced. He went from last chair to first chair nearly overnight, having been taught far more techniques than typically taught at that age just to overcome the broken instrument preventing him from making noise. Sometimes you don't need to brute force a problem. Sometimes your clarinet is just broken.
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  Church of Jeff (jeffowski@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 03:05:05 JST Church of Jeff
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  @maccruiskeen — LOL the United States excels at that. Look at the Presidency and the whole cabinet.
  
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  MacCruiskeen (maccruiskeen@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 03:05:06 JST MacCruiskeen
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  @jeffowski Having tried to play the clarinet, I feel the frustration of the register key. Not entirely surprising that a school-supplied instrument was in bad shape. Slightly surprising that a clarinet teacher would not check the thing that is most likely to fail on a clarinet. That suggests they were not really qualified to do the job.
  
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