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Re: Perfect Pitch

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 26, 2000, 2:44
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Danny Wier wrote:

>--- Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...> wrote: > >> Especially my own: A few years ago I happened to get a little happy >> with the lubrication when greasing one of the slides on my trumpet. >> I ended up playing the whole concert off-key due to the slide's, >> well, _sliding_ while I was playing! :-P Continually changed the >> pitches! >> Good thing there were other trumpets in the band! :-) >> (I laugh about it now, but at the time, >> it was pretty excruciating to my ears!) > >DId you start playing it like a trombone?
Perhaps the slides fell out altogether? Now _that_ makes a nice sound. One moment clear tone; next moment faint buzzing. One of my worst pitfalls in trying to learn soprano bone is whipping the slide right off the end.
>DaW. (who once broke a clarinet in half during marching practice)
Hm. I managed to break a piano hammer once. It's still sheathed with copper pipe, awaiting a repair. Padraic. -- Sdanger meil!