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RE: first impressions

Author: mike
Date: 2000-02-08 19:28

That reminds me of a story told by the late Phillip Farkas, of the great Chicago Symphony horn section, about when he was a boy and had just joined the school band as a prospective tuba player. But the bus driver told him that it was too big to carry on the bus, so Farkas pointed at another student who was carrying a French horn and asked if that was too large to carry on the bus. The bus driver said that the horn was ok and the rest is history. Farkas was wondering the same thing: what would have happened if he had pointed to a flute.

Having said that, I think that the number of people who play several instruments at a high level of accomplishment indicates that musicality is something that a person can posses even without having virtuosic technique on a particular (or even any) instrument. So is the passion for music or for a particular instrument? There probably is not a completely general answer. I personally tend to fumble around on several different instruments. I have a particular idea about how I want each of them to SOUND. And it is striving towards this SOUND that drives me to practice.

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