Re: Perfect Pitch

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.

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