No big deal, dude. I was just confused and didn't understand how something you had already done and you said didn't help...suddenly helped!
Tubman originally wrote:I've even tried giving the horn a bath and running a snake through it, which helped, but the problem still remains.
Tubman, after an edit for clarity(!), wrote:I've even tried giving the horn a bath and running a snake through it, which might help, but then again I can't be too sure.
Communication's a bitch, ain't it???
Hey, at least we had a nice discussion about ensemble tuning over a problem that solved itself before the original post!
Todd S. Malicoate wrote:No big deal, dude. I was just confused and didn't understand how something you had already done and you said didn't help...suddenly helped!
Tubman originally wrote:I've even tried giving the horn a bath and running a snake through it, which helped, but the problem still remains.
Tubman, after an edit for clarity(!), wrote:I've even tried giving the horn a bath and running a snake through it, which might help, but then again I can't be too sure.
Communication's a bitch, ain't it???
Hey, at least we had a nice discussion about ensemble tuning over a problem that solved itself before the original post!
Haha! I'm still glad I posted this, though. It helped to get some of these ideas and ways to fix things through my thick skull. I'll be sure to make a post whenever I have a monumental problem...next time I'll make sure to think things through a bit better before I go making a donkey of myself again.
PT-6P with gold-plated PT-88+
Gronitz PF-125 with Conn Helleberg
I just wanted to share a story I was told by a very fine horn player who works with my quintet from time-to-time, and he started off on Sousaphone.
The sousaphone section leader was unaware that there were 12 different fingerings in a scale and only used 8. Therefore Gb, G natural and G# were all the same fingering - 1&2. You just made the horn DO what you wanted it to. And it worked - for two years together they played in tune with the band and each other without knowing that more fingerings were available to them. This shows great listening skills and shows what can be accomplished by the unknowing.
After two years of sousaphone, a very cute girl joined the band in the horn section. He switched to horn so he could sit next to her. This is when he found out that there were more fingerings he should have been aware of.
Back to work.
Roger
"The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." Hunter S Thompson
