Re: Perfect Pitch

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Danny Wier wrote:

>--- Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> wrote:
>
>> >An off-key trombone player wracks my nerves more than it would other
>> >people.
>
>Wait, lemme correct myself.  The only thing worse than a trombone
>playing sharp is a clarinet playing flat.
I.e., any clarinet. :)

>
>> I don't even remember learning phonics, though I know we must have.
>
>I went to a parochial school (Episcopalian, or "Catholic Light").  The
>teachers used a phonics course called Spalding Spelling.  It focused on
>spelling as well as pronunciation.  Letters were written with numbers
>over them to indicate which sound, and sequences were underlined then
>numbered thusly.  The most extreme example was "ough", which altogether
>was numbered between 1 and 6.  (Yes, Virginia, there are six sounds for
>"ough".
I guess RC would be Catholic Heavy. :) We didn't mess about with
numbers over letters or anything; but we did in some way learn all
the sounds associated with letter combinations.

Padraic.

>DaW.