Monday morning stupidity
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mceuph
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Monday morning stupidity
A word of friendly advice. When using a tuner in your warm up, before spending an entire 40 minutes fighting the horn, second guessing yourself, and generally becoming deeply frustrated as I just have, check to make sure your tuner is calibrated to A 440 and not A 437. Apparently I didn't learn that one during my 10 years of school. Happy warmup everyone!
Martin Cochran
Columbus State University
University of Alabama-Birmingham
Adams Euphonium Artist
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windshieldbug
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Re: Monday morning stupidity
It's hard to play when your tuner is "baroquen"! 
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pierso20
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Re: Monday morning stupidity
oh no....windshieldbug wrote:It's hard to play when your tuner is "baroquen"!
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imperialbari
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Re: Monday morning stupidity
Sorry, why use a tuner for warming up?
The purpose of my warm-up procedures is about using my bodily playing apparatus in a flexible and gradually extended way, so that it is stretched, well provided with blood, and hence ready to make music. All done in a fashion preventing sudden overloads of the muscles.
I use my ears and I avoid playing more out of tune than necessary. But if I felt obliged to adapt to a tuner during this process, I just would stiffen up myself.
Klaus
The purpose of my warm-up procedures is about using my bodily playing apparatus in a flexible and gradually extended way, so that it is stretched, well provided with blood, and hence ready to make music. All done in a fashion preventing sudden overloads of the muscles.
I use my ears and I avoid playing more out of tune than necessary. But if I felt obliged to adapt to a tuner during this process, I just would stiffen up myself.
Klaus