Klarinet Archive - Posting 000313.txt from 2005/09

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fake books
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:23:12 -0400

At 06:12 AM 9/27/2005 -0500, John Blegen wrote:
>It's a frustrating fact that there is no such thing as a complete Fake
>Book. I have a
>pretty large collection of both legal and illegal Fake Books, and I still
>come up
>empty now and then when looking for a particular tune. My solution -- and
>I imagine
>this is availabel too in Oz -- is the public library, where there's an
>even larger
>collection of Fake Books (legal, of course) and other music compilations
>as well as,
>of one is lucky, an occasional sheet music collection. Some public
>libraries even
>index the contents of Fake Books in their online catalogs.

If all the publishers got together, they could publish one fake book that
had everything. You'd need a forklift to take it on gigs with you, though.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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