Re: Perfect Pitch

On 26 July, Padriac Brown wrote:

>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?
>
It sure seemed like it!  :-)

>Perhaps the slides fell out altogether? Now _that_ makes a nice
>sound. One moment clear tone; next moment faint buzzing.
Only one slide got overgreased and it slid, not fell.
Fortunately, even with all the loud music around me,
I was able to monitor whether or not I was off and
so when to push it back. Except that when tuning
it before the concert, I had had to pull the slide out somewhat.
Thus, pushing it back to that exact position in the middle of
the music was not really possible. I kept overshooting
the mark and anyway, it soon started to slide out again!
Lots of fun! :-)

> One of
>my worst pitfalls in trying to learn soprano bone is whipping
>the slide right off the end.
Now _that_ sounds interesting! :-)

>>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.
Hey, remind me to be extra careful if I ever jam with you guys!  :-)

Dan Sulani
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