At 4:06 PM -0400 7/7/10, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Wed Jul 7, at WednesdayJul 7 3:27 PM, Ryan wrote:
Good thoughts on tuning. I love the contributors to this list. I do want to
clarify that I was joking about using the muted trumpet. I was referring to
the ubiquitous arranger's technique of cueing the oboe part for muted
trumpet.
There is only one orchestrator's joke that I know of. Goes like this.
In our band the oboist is always sucking on her reeds obsessively,
Every break, or even for a sixteen-bar rest, she is taking it off
the instrument and sucking it and examining it, as if it is going to
blow up (which maybe it is!) Anyway, one day she is sucking on it
and accidentally inhaled it. She turned red and choked, and I
dialled 911 and explained quickly, "Our oboist just swallowed her
reed! What do we do?" Without hesitation, the emergency operator
knew exactly what to do. "Use a muted trumpet."
Thank you ladies and gentlemen. I'll be here all week.
My favorite may come from Garrison Keiler. If you screw up, turn
around and look at the oboist. Unless you're the oboist. Then take
out your reed and look at it.
John
--
John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music
Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034
(mailto:john.how...@vt.edu)
http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
"We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition
of jazz musicians.
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