windshieldbug wrote:But the trombone section of an orchetra has been sliding more towards the tuba for years. The Bass Trombone already uses an Eb-style mouthpiece, the bores have become as much as possible like the pre-1900's Eb, and the oft-used F attachment WAS the preferred tuba key of that time.
...and in the process, the sound's become broader, louder and harder to control. I for one, wouldn't mind it if the orchestra did a turnabout and moved back toward the peashooters. I know the wire choir wouldn't mind one bit.
Maybe, but we could always guage how well we were doing by how far the violas pushed their chairs forward: tangible measurement in an intangible medium!
Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?
windshieldbug wrote:Maybe, but we could always guage how well we were doing by how far the violas pushed their chairs forward: tangible measurement in an intangible medium!
Ah, but there's a limit to that measurement, old chum! What does one do when Maestro falls off the front of the stage?
bloke wrote:85% of today's "active [brass] players" (if magically transported back into the 1950's into a professional American orchestra) would immediately file greivances about how they are treated and how they are *paid. They would be laughed at and immediately fired. Further, they would constantly be told to "Stop blasting"
I doubt it. People go into this line of work because they are driven to do it. Nobody I know ever worried about "how much they were gunna make", or for "how long". When there are so many qualified applicants trying out every position, no matter how small, I'm sure that they would do what they needed to do to keep playing!
Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?
