Klarinet Archive - Posting 001268.txt from 1998/03

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: Urgent Plea
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:39:42 -0500

Playing heavily marked parts is an interesting (?) way to learn to *do
without* pencil markings. Of course, you pros out there presumably don't
get the number of rehearsals we amateurs do, and so it's more useful to
mark the parts.
Roger Shilcock

On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Scott Morrow wrote:

> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:18:03 -0500
> From: Scott Morrow <sdm@-----.edu>
> To: klarinet <klarinet@-----.us>
> Subject: Re: Urgent Plea
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.edu>
> To: klarinet@-----.us>
> Date: Friday, March 27, 1998 9:29 AM
> Subject: Re: Urgent Plea
>
>
> (exerpt): ....... When a piece
> >of music is put on my stand with unerased markings by a previous perform-
> >er, I pull out my eraser and erase them, with the additional hope that
> >the rental company imposed an additional charge to the orchestra which
> >returned this part without erasing all such marks beforehand. That's
> >the way it's supposed to work, anyway.
> >
> >Neil Leupold
>
>
> The way it is SUPPOSED to work is that you are allowed to mark your
> parts in pencil and erase them before you return the parts. The additional
> charge that Neil refers to is for the RENTAL COMPANY to erase the parts
> BEFORE sending them out to the next renter! What good does it do for the
> rental company to impose a fine and then not correct the problem?!!!
> Incidentally, the only parts I do NOT erase are where I've corrected
> mistakes in the music. Why should the next person have to find them the
> hard way?
>
> -Scott
>
> Scott D. Morrow
> DNA Synthesis Core Facility
> Department of Biochemistry
> The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
> Baltimore, MD 21205
> (410) 955-3631
>
>