So last night I was comparing how different mouthpieces responded in the low
register, among other things playing the low descending chromatic passage in
the 2nd horn part near the end of the Beethoven sextet, when my 6-year-old
daughter comes into the room, gives me a big smile, and then makes her best
Where-The-Wild-Things-Are-Gnash-Their-Terrible-Teeth face. So I respond in
kind. Then I go back to playing, and she makes the face again. Then she says,
"Can you do that again?" So I make a mean face again and she says, "No, can
you do like...like you did when you did it before?" I couldn't recall having
made a face like that in any story I'd told her recently, so I said, "Like
when?" "Like when you...when you...". And then she starts singing the passage
from the Beethoven. "Oh, you mean this?" I said, and started playing the
Beethoven again, and she started making her face again. I don't know if that's
a comment on the sound I was
producing (I hope it wasn't that nasty!) or just how that particular lick
sounded to her when taken out of context, but I was pretty proud of her for
associating something I don't think she'd ever heard before with a particular
feeling or expression.
Dan Feigelson
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