Hi, Ray... Nice to see another Ergo user! The ErgoEuph works nicely as well, though I have become convinced that the euphonium is the world's LEAST ergonomic instrument, at least the top-action ones with the british side 4th valve... Jim
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Ray Horton Sent: Mon 25-Feb-08 1:36 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] what does a copyist do? now scordatura First position - trombone - I get it! I made reference to this in another post. This retuning to which you refer on bass trombone takes a lot longer than five minutes to learn, and remains confusing forever. I know, I went back to a single-valve for a few years, a few years ago, in an effort to save my aching shoulder. When I found out about the Ergo-bone (a very nicely designed stand for the trombone while playing) I put my double valve back on, which makes 99% of retuning the valve unnecessary. RBH John Howell wrote: > At 5:18 PM -0500 2/23/08, Ray Horton wrote: >> >> I'm done talking out of my area, since we now have string players >> weighing in. I work with them and have parented a couple, but never >> got _really_ comfortable out of first position, myself. > > Gee, that's a real limitation for a 'bone player! > > OK, to ask something seriously, did you have any trouble learning to > adjust your slide positions when you had to pull your F slide to E? > I'd be astonished if you did for more than 5 minutes. And similarly, > any string player can learn to deal with finding the notes in > scordatura, especially since the string length remains the same and > therefore the distance between notes in each position remains the same > (except, of course, for the 4th string extension on string basses). > > John > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
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