Klarinet Archive - Posting 000185.txt from 2010/01

From: "Tom Servinsky" <tompiano@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Great idea!
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:38:43 -0500

There's a foot pedal page turner. My other life is that of a concert piano
technician and I've done a number of events with Christopher O'Reilly. Chris
travels with the notepad and carries all of his music with him in the
computer. He has a foot pedal to advance the page turns. Pretty slick.
Tom Servinsky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Hausmann" <bhausmann1@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 12:29 AM
Subject: RE: [kl] Great idea!

> 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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