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Post by princessmoose on Dec 1, 2006 22:09:01 GMT
when I play clarinet in orchestra. After about an hour and a half of playing I get this weird tingling, sort of pins and needles pain in my wrists and arms. The pieces aren't hard (Hebrides, Beethoven's 8th, Elgar Pomp and Circumstance 4) and it's only when I play clarinet and only in this particular orchestra . Any ideas/suggestions?
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Post by anacrusis on Dec 2, 2006 0:32:59 GMT
I think you've been playing too much lately... Probably long passages, not much space to put the instrument on your knee and give it a rest? Plus your posture is likely to be a bit different with sitting down....clearly you can't stand up to play in orchestra, but my guess is that an enforced break-ette over Christmas is going to help a bit.
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Post by princessmoose on Dec 2, 2006 8:40:09 GMT
I've had it before though, so I'm not sure if this week's madness is the cause?
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Post by anacrusis on Dec 2, 2006 12:00:46 GMT
I still think that's the most likely cause. It could also be to do with the music, because if the breathing points come too close together, you could effectively be over-breathing; that causes you to blow off too much carbon dioxide, which upsets the acidity balance in your blood, then various salts move from one bit of the body to another, which fires off nerve endings and gives you pins and needles. I find music not written for recorder gives me hassle with breathing points, and also music written by blooming violinists who only have to breathe to live.....grrrr.
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