Klarinet Archive - Posting 000184.txt from 2010/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Great idea!
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:29:28 -0500

At 11:06 PM 1/26/2010, Kevin Fay wrote:
>Bill Hausmann posted:
>
><<<The bass player in our big band devised his own private MusicPad Pro out
>of an old laptop (the guy has his own electronics firm as a day job). All
>of his music, and we have a LARGE book, is scanned in and stored there. On
>the gig he does not need a stand light, either, since the screen provides
>its own illumination. With his numeric keypad he can pull up tunes much
>faster than the rest of us with our old-fashioned paper charts. He is happy
>with it.>>>
>
>This could be a really cool thing, I think. How does he turn pages - tap
>the space bar?

I'm not sure exactly, but you can bet he has a system for it!

>Further:
>
><<<If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!>>>
>
>. . . or your sax player needs to get a Beechler . . .

I recently got a new Cannonball Vintage tenor and the Berg Larson
mouthpiece I got with another horn (and never liked) just SINGS on
this new one. Lots of output.

Bill Hausmann

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

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