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Re: Why Bb?

Author: conservatory_kid
Date: 2007-04-06 20:06

Those are all great questions. Why don't we read in A# or D#? Because it would be a bitch. I'd much rather deal with only two or three flats, thank you much. Why don't we read in concert pitch? The same reason French horns don't. Pitch is relative. If French horn's music was written the way it actually sounded there would be a billion ledger lines. Would it make conductor's lives easier? Oh certainly, but then they'd have more time to yell at us and that's not fun. So we like to throw them some extra curves. And you see it doesn't really matter anyway. Why are we talking about the merits of E# vs. F natural when we could be talking about something more interesting like oh say... is a diminished unison a vacuum?

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