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Re: Playing Shows

Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2004-05-05 19:15

[ Of course you destroy your copies after the show ... right? - GBK ]

Yeah, sure, you bet....

My main gripe about the music (mostly that from Tamms Witmark) is that the books refuse to lay flat on the stand. It's hard enough to turn the pages in a hurry as it is, but when the spine of the book persists in wanting to turn a few more than you desire, it's a real bother. No problem with three ring in that regard.

I've never had problems with marking and erasing (of my marks, that is; those of the others who use hard pencils are a different problem altogether). I use mechanical pencils with extremely soft lead (one or two in every horn case, plus a spare or two in the little box on the H stand) and vinyl erasers in those pen-like holders. The vinyl eraser cleans the soft lead off in one easy pass; great for those repeated cuts and changes in dance numbers where they just can't seem to get it right.

To get the soft lead, go to an art or graphic arts supply store and ask for the softest lead you can get for the size of pencil that you use. They will not stock pencils with the soft lead already installed; you have to buy it separately and then change it out.

[How hard is it to add flute to sax. Is the fingering the same?]

Sax to flute is relatively easy from the fingering point of view. (So, for that matter, are most woodwinds with the possible exception of bassoon, which involves one's thumbs to a much greater degree.) It's just a matter of learning the different systems rather than adapting, say, sax fingering to "something else only this is different".

What chaps my ass about the flute is the embouchure, which I have never quite gotten down to a reflexive thing. That it can be done is more than obvious from all of the zillions of little girls who play flute and play it well. Perhaps too many years of big sax and clarinet mouthpieces have spoilt my mouth. Since I don't normally have to play flute, I've never had the motivation to get down to brass tacks and "learn it right". Same-same for tenor clef, for that matter.

I can fill in a middle flute part well enough (while turning blue in the attempt), but I'd never want to try the Reed One book with a florid flute part.

leader of Houston's Sounds Of The South Dance Orchestra
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