Music for beginners tends to favor flat keys for winds and sharp keys for strings. Professionals should be able to negotiate any key even if they do gripe about this or that one. I new a bluegrass violist once who was trying to master the b minor scale and having the devil's time with it. The "natural" scale of the trombone is B-flat, but good players can be all over the map key-wise. One of the IU professors was infamous for insisting on hearing B major on trombone juries. My own trombone concerto is all over the place key-wise (when it's in a key at all, that is), and the soloist who played and recorded it didn't gripe once.
Aaron J. Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.waymark.net/arabushk _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
