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Author: Stephen Froehlich
Date: 2001-01-15 14:16
I gave a friend of mine Eric Dolphy's _Last Dance_ album for Christmas. Said friend has taken quite a liking to it, and has been listening to it quite a bit. (He's also a cellist, so he has a decent ear.) I noticed that in several of the tracks, Eric just lets the clarion B on his selmer go sharp as it wants to. (It does sound cool in context.) What's amusing, though is that I caught my friend singing the tune from memory, complete with a very sharp B.
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Author: Ken
Date: 2001-01-15 17:13
I love a good intonation story. Here's an oldie but a goodie: I used to work with a 3rd clarinet player in concert band who proudly boasted he was born with perfect pitch, every note he ever played was consistently dead-center A440 and HE was always right and refused to adjust or blend with the rest of the section. After about a month of putting up with this clown, me and the other 2nd chair player snatched his copy of "Americans We" March that we were going to read the next day and perform on our upcoming tour. We also swiped the Epher part, cut out the printed part designation where it said "Eb Clarinet", taped it over "3rd clarinet" on his part, then photocopied it and stuck it back in his folder. When we read the march the next day, he played through the whole piece without even flinching once. It was so entertaining, we just left the part. We toured with the march on our program five straight nights and he bowled right through it everytime without a peep... amazing! Last I heard, he's working in a lumber yard now. <:-))
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Author: Fred
Date: 2001-01-15 22:43
. . . far better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you're a fool . . .
than to open it and remove all doubt.
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Author: Dee
Date: 2001-01-16 02:01
Fred wrote:
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> . . . far better to keep your mouth shut and have people
> think you're a fool . . .
> than to open it and remove all doubt.
But it is better to ask a foolish question than to make a foolish mistake.
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Author: Ginny
Date: 2001-01-16 02:15
I have the habit of reading music in my head, I can sort of sight read mentally and hear the pitch and tone on the instrument I imagine I am reading for.
One day I was mentally sight reading a simple clarinet piece, and In MY MIND the Bb sounded out PAINFULLY OUT OF TUNE! I decided to buy a better clarinet to replace the old Bundy before it got any more deeply ingrained.
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Author: DLE
Date: 2001-01-16 12:04
How about giving someone the wrong part - I remember once that the orchestra conductor gave to the trumpets the part 'in C', and us the part 'in B-Flat' - now that was amusing.
A week later he disappeared and was never seen in the building again -- FOOL!
Sorry, but he was.
Nowadays one of the biggest laughs we get is when we are tuning by ear - our conductor has admitted from the very beginning that he doesn't have an ear for tuning, so every time he says it's flat, I disagree with him 'cause I have perfect pitch (Sorry Ken), and vice-versa.
P.S. Needless to say that Orchestra rehearsals are nowadays pretty boring.
DLE.
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Author: deebee
Date: 2001-01-16 13:35
You could brighten up those orchestra rehearsals again -
. . .just get the oboist to give an Ab for the tuning note *~8^)
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