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had never taken lessons on the instrument
and thought some formal
training would be helpful. The
clarinet instructor at that time was
a brilliant musician by the name
of Patricia Kostek. She was a very
young Conservatory professor and
has went on to have a very active and
successful career. I had an old Conn
clarinet that I purchased on a garage
sale. It wasn’t a very good instrument
and wasn’t in very good repair. On
clarinets it is common for some of
the smaller tone holes to get plugged
up with lint, especially if you don’t to
swab them out regularly, which was
the case with my instrument. If the
tone hole is plugged up it will affect
response and intonation. During my
third lesson I was having problems
with both response and intonation
on the note A. Upon inspecting my
clarinet Patricia said to me, ‘Kerry,
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