Dan "Not Paul" McCartney wrote: Can anyone out there explain why the intonation is lower when playing off the leg than when resting the bell on the leg?
Now, in a perfect, logical world, more of senses would be having it that since when you make the liftings of the bell, the pitch would go higher, and when you are resting the bell on your leg, the pitch would go lower but you have observed, as have many before you, that the opposites are true in our mostestest of imperfect, illogical worlds, but despite all of these connfusions and connfoundements, this is a mostestest of certains of "Koepfchennichthaben" as when your horn is off your leg, it is aimed at the wall, which is flat, thus making your pitch flat, so this explains it and you must have some understandings now and I am now having the mostestest of connfidences that you do too so to raise the pitch with the bell off the leg, you must point it at a sharp object, like a Ginzu knife, fire-poker, Arabian scimitar, army surplus bayonet or even a paint scraper will do, in order to for the natural, automatic psycho-acoustic result to mysteriously appear and this is good because it is better to be sharp than out of tune! Merry Xopprasch and a Happy New Year from a snowy, blowy Bad Corner, NH, Prof. I. M. Gestopftmitscheist Principal 8th horn and Principal 4th Wagner Tuber, Schplittenotendorf am Oedland Staatsoper und Philharmoniker, (ret.) Solo Horn, Bad Corner Brass Quintet Hornist, Broken Winds WW Quintet Solo 4th Horn (Leader, call me for bookings), Smirnoff Horn Quartet Assistant Associate Principal Mellophone, NJ Turnpike Authority Drum and Bugle Corps, "The Phantom Lane Changers" (summer only) Hornist as Needed, L'Ensemble du Chambre des Palourdes Principal Natural Horn, I Soloisti di Feces Principal Baroque and Hunting Horn, Camarata Vongoleforte Adjunct, Part-time, Arms-length Professor of Horn and Pest Control, Exit 2 Community College, Exit 2, NJ (Ret.) Adjunct, Part-time, Arms-length Professor of Horn, Pest Control and Home Petroleum Studies, Northern New Hampshire Technical Institute, Bad Corner, NH Author, "The Kopprasch Connection," "Kopprasch for Fun and Profit," "Kopprasch for the New Millenium: Where Do you Fit In?" "Hooked on Hornonics," and "What If Saddam Had Given Ouday and Qusay Olds Ambassador or Conn Pan American Single F Horns and a Kopprasch Book Instead of AK 47's, Booze and Porn?" Founder, Director and CEO, Universal Institute for the Study, Preservation and Dissemination of Kopprasch Throughout the Solar System Founder and Guru Extraordinaire, Hornaholics Anonymous Grand Poobah of the Koppraschian Kult Director and Program Manager, The All Kopprasch Channel (AKC), Kopprasch Public Radio (KPR) Host of The Kopprasch Factor on AKC and All Kopprasch Considered on KPR Founder of Kopprasch Depot, your one stop shop for all you need! Owner-Operator, Bad Corner Petroleum Laboratory, " The Worlds Largest Valve Oil Factory" Interplanetarily Known Soloist and Artist of Record Exclusive Bundy, Carl Fischer, Olds Ambassador, Sansone and Conn Artist Who Does Not Get His Horns For Free Phone: yes Fax: yes E-mail: yes Website: no "Let's put the K back in Xopprasch!" _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
