Re: [Finale] Finale Allegro

2009-09-22 Thread John Roberts
Thank you David. This list is very supportive. He just sent me a test file and it did open perfectly. I do appreciate you answer though. John On 9/22/09 4:23 PM, "dhbailey" wrote: > John Roberts wrote: >> I have a client who wants to send me files in Allegro. Can I open them in >> Finale? I

Re: [Finale] Trumpet question

2009-09-22 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/22/2009 06:52 PM, dhbailey wrote: >Phil Daley wrote: >> At 9/22/2009 05:07 PM, dhbailey wrote: >> >> >Excellent -- do you also know George Kent, who has >> >accompanied Edward Tarr on many occasions? >> >> Is he fairly old? >> >> I had a George Kent (fantastic trumpet player) teach me clar

Re: [Finale] Trumpet question

2009-09-22 Thread dhbailey
Phil Daley wrote: At 9/22/2009 05:07 PM, dhbailey wrote: >Excellent -- do you also know George Kent, who has >accompanied Edward Tarr on many occasions? Is he fairly old? I had a George Kent (fantastic trumpet player) teach me clarinet at Stonington High School in 1963. He showed me an F-

Re: [Finale] Trumpet question

2009-09-22 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/22/2009 05:07 PM, dhbailey wrote: >Excellent -- do you also know George Kent, who has >accompanied Edward Tarr on many occasions? Is he fairly old? I had a George Kent (fantastic trumpet player) teach me clarinet at Stonington High School in 1963. He showed me an F-trumpet, I had never

Re: [Finale] Trumpet question

2009-09-22 Thread dhbailey
Howard Weiner wrote: At 16:15 22.09.2009 -0400, dhbailey wrote: Only hearing Edward Tarr play on those original trumpets and then hearing Edward Tarr play on a modern replica, and hearing him do that live can really give any indication of the relative loud/soft-ness of the instruments. OK,

Re: [Finale] Trumpet question

2009-09-22 Thread Howard Weiner
At 16:15 22.09.2009 -0400, dhbailey wrote: Only hearing Edward Tarr play on those original trumpets and then hearing Edward Tarr play on a modern replica, and hearing him do that live can really give any indication of the relative loud/soft-ness of the instruments. OK, I can confirm from per

Re: [Finale] Finale Allegro

2009-09-22 Thread dhbailey
John Roberts wrote: I have a client who wants to send me files in Allegro. Can I open them in Finale? I would expect to be able to, but I'm not sure. Thanks, John ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Trumpet question

2009-09-22 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:15 PM, dhbailey wrote: > Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > > How can you tell they're softer sounding than modern trumpets if it's a > recording?  Engineering can do a whole lot to make things seem one way when > in fact they were the opposite in the actual recording situation.

[Finale] Finale Allegro

2009-09-22 Thread John Roberts
I have a client who wants to send me files in Allegro. Can I open them in Finale? I would expect to be able to, but I'm not sure. Thanks, John ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Trumpet question

2009-09-22 Thread dhbailey
Kim Patrick Clow wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Howard Weiner wrote: Unfortunately, the extra security that the vent holes provide also make it possible for trumpeters to play louder than they otherwise could on the old trumpets. In recent years, a number of European trumpet players, a

Re: [Finale] Trumpet question

2009-09-22 Thread Barbara Touburg
Howard Weiner wrote: At 19:57 22.09.2009 +0200, Barbara Touburg wrote: On Youtube there are clips of the Brandenburg concertos by the Freiburg Baroque. In this clip the trumpet player moves his right hand fingers in a special way. What does he to?

Re: [Finale] Trumpet question

2009-09-22 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Howard Weiner wrote: > > Unfortunately, the extra security that the vent holes > provide also make it possible for trumpeters to play louder than they > otherwise could on the old trumpets. In recent years, a number of European > trumpet players, above all Jean-Fra

Re: [Finale] Trumpet question

2009-09-22 Thread Howard Weiner
At 19:57 22.09.2009 +0200, Barbara Touburg wrote: On Youtube there are clips of the Brandenburg concertos by the Freiburg Baroque. In this clip the trumpet player moves his right hand fingers in a special way. What does he to? Are there tiny holes

Re: [Finale] Trumpet question

2009-09-22 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Barbara Touburg wrote: > the trumpet player moves his right hand fingers in a special way. What does > he to? Are there tiny holes in the tube? > > Barbara Er... Yes, those holes affect the pitch. Thanks ;) Kim ___ F

Re: [Finale] Trumpet question

2009-09-22 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Barbara Touburg wrote: > On Youtube there are clips of the Brandenburg concertos by the Freiburg > Baroque. In this clip > > > > the trumpet player moves his right hand fingers in a special way. What does > he to? Are th

[Finale] Trumpet question

2009-09-22 Thread Barbara Touburg
On Youtube there are clips of the Brandenburg concertos by the Freiburg Baroque. In this clip the trumpet player moves his right hand fingers in a special way. What does he to? Are there tiny holes in the tube? Barbara

Re: [Finale] smallest notebook for Finale?

2009-09-22 Thread Matthew Hindson
OK, having used the Acer Netbook with Finale for the past couple of days: - Sound = no good. In a score with 7 staves, it can't keep up - it's like being back on the Mac Classic more than 10 years ago. This is with Garritan turned off, all sounds internally and no other applications running. - S

Re: [Finale] Data-Entry Keyboard / Midi Interface

2009-09-22 Thread Dennis Manasco
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I looked at all of them. The Nano was too small for what I need. The Oxygen 49 was a strong contender. I had forgotten that Edirol/Roland was still making small keyboards. I finally decided on an Edirol/Roland PCR-500. It's too big, but the PCR-300 is to

Re: [Finale] Violin Ties

2009-09-22 Thread Dennis Manasco
On Sep 21, 2009, at 11:09 AM, John Roberts wrote: I don't have a large collection of Scottish fiddle books, but I did find this looped tie (and slur) used throughout J. Scott Skinner, The Scottish Violinist. John -- J. Scott Skinner it is! My book is "The Scottish Violinist" published