This thread has exposed the raw feelings and misunderstanding of music
education or the lack thereof.
The US does not have a national education system. Our education
"system" is locally funded and supervised. Musical education is at the
whim of elected school boards. The quality of musical education is
therefore a geographic crap shoot.
If ones parents are able and willing to pay for private lessons, all is
not necessarily well and good. The quality of instrumental teachers can
vary wildly. Again, the students education is impacted by conditions
beyond their control
Transposing! A short story.
A young oboist in the local high school band was required to play a bell
front F marching horn. She was annoyed to discover that the notes she
was playing sounded lower than read. Her remarks, "Who dreamed up this
stupid system!", while funny begs the next question. Why continue this
nonesence?
Republish every thing horn in F or C. In one clef. The key notations
aren't all that irritating either. No more excuses from the hornists
about transposing. Save the the original charts for reforance or
performance on antique instruments.
A British hornist proposed this several years ago, to no effect.
--wabotte
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