Re: Perfect Pitch

On 25 July, 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 dunno... a flute playing off either way sets my teeth on edge!
I have perfect (or something reasonably close to it) pitch myself,
and actually _any_ instrument played off-key  bothers me.
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!)

Dan Sulani
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