Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-15 Thread dhbailey
timothy.price wrote: On Mar 14, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: reversing the mouthpiece *definitely* does. As radical an idea as actual experimentation may be, I tried it on my trumpet, and by gosh, you get a much louder sound using the reversed mouthpiece. Imagine that !

Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-15 Thread John Howell
At 10:58 AM -0400 3/15/10, dhbailey wrote: timothy.price wrote: As radical an idea as actual experimentation may be, I tried it on my trumpet, and by gosh, you get a much louder sound using the reversed mouthpiece. Imagine that ! But you also get a different timbre, so it's a trade off

Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-15 Thread Ray Horton
John Howell wrote: At 10:58 AM -0400 3/15/10, dhbailey wrote: timothy.price wrote: As radical an idea as actual experimentation may be, I tried it on my trumpet, and by gosh, you get a much louder sound using the reversed mouthpiece. Imagine that ! But you also get a different timbre, so

Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-15 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Yeah, I just tried to go Ta-ka-da, ta-ka-da with my tongue in my cheek ... came out sounding something like a rat going down a sewer pipe ... Dean On Mar 15, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Ray Horton wrote: John Howell wrote: (Sorry; tongue very definitely in cheek--and it's hard to triple-

[Finale] composers and new effects

2010-03-15 Thread Howey, Henry
John, I believe instrumental technique has always advanced as composers write dumb/difficult/impossible things and players get them to work. It's a two-way street, though. Taafe-Zwillich wrote a bass trombone concerto that over-uses the stupid pet tricks of Charlie Vernon;-) Sent from my iPod

Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-15 Thread arabushka
Interestingly enough the piece for which I am considering this effect has 1 D-trumpet (or E-flat if the player prefers) and 2 fluegelhorns. We'll see if I wind up giveng the effect to any or all of them. ajr John Howell john.how...@vt.edu wrote: At 10:58 AM -0400 3/15/10, dhbailey

Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-15 Thread dhbailey
John Howell wrote: At 10:58 AM -0400 3/15/10, dhbailey wrote: timothy.price wrote: As radical an idea as actual experimentation may be, I tried it on my trumpet, and by gosh, you get a much louder sound using the reversed mouthpiece. Imagine that ! But you also get a different timbre, so

[Finale] OT: trying to upgrade browsers

2010-03-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
My 9-yr.-old browsers no longer support most online video, notably UTube. I'd like to upgrade to the most recent available versions that will run w. my OS (Mac OS 10.3.9), but can't find these on the internet. Can anybody help? My current browsers are Safari 1.3.2 and IE/Mac 5.2 Andrew

[Finale] merging files, and thanks!

2010-03-15 Thread Katherine Hoover
I was asked to restate the merging situation. First - thanks for the answers! Noel S.' long one has been printed to study... Obviously merging is not simple, though my case is about as simple as it could get. Score for viola piano; 2 movements. I want to merge mvts. 1 2 of the

Re: [Finale] OT: trying to upgrade browsers

2010-03-15 Thread Martin Banner
I have two computers, one which runs OS 10.3.9, so I can still use my Finale 2003 and Microsoft Works files. Can't access either of those on my new iMac that runs 10.5.x Martin On Mar 15, 2010, at 3:48 PM, J D Thomas wrote: Andrew, is there a specific reason why you're still at Mac OS

RE: [Finale] OT: trying to upgrade browsers

2010-03-15 Thread George Brooke
I agree that it would probably be good to update your OS, but if you don't wish to you should be able to update Safari. Under your Apple menu just choose Software Update. Software Update will check for updates for all the Apple software on your machine and the Safari update should be in the list

Re: [Finale] OT: trying to upgrade browsers

2010-03-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Andrew, YouTube (and most other online video) is Flash-based. You will need to download the latest version of Flash for your OS, which you can probably do from Adobe's website. (You may also need to upgrade your browser, but you will definitely need to install Flash.) Internet Explorer

Re: [Finale] OT: trying to upgrade browsers

2010-03-15 Thread David W. Fenton
On 15 Mar 2010 at 16:31, Martin Banner wrote: I have two computers, one which runs OS 10.3.9, so I can still use my Finale 2003 and Microsoft Works files. Can't access either of those on my new iMac that runs 10.5.x Is there no possibility on OS X of running an earlier version of OS X

RE: [Finale] merging files, and thanks!

2010-03-15 Thread Houghton, W
Hi Katherine. If you have Adobe Acrobat (which has a good file-combining tool) you could always merge pdf's of the movements (?) Best regards, Mark Houghton From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Katherine Hoover

Re: [Finale] OT: trying to upgrade browsers

2010-03-15 Thread Bob Morabito
Hi Andrew- According to this, you have the latest version ot Safari(1.3.2) that works on 10.3.9 (Safari 2.0 requires OS 10.4.) http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17743vid=132387 -- As far as IE for Mac, according to this, Version 5.2.3, June 16, 2003 , was the

Re: [Finale] OT: trying to upgrade browsers

2010-03-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi David, It's possible, but unsupported and not for the faint of heart. The process is essentially the same as running a Hackintosh -- i.e., running Mac OS X on a PC: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Vmware_how_to It is, ironically, much easier to run Windows on a Mac using

Re: [Finale] OT: trying to upgrade browsers

2010-03-15 Thread David W. Fenton
On 15 Mar 2010 at 18:03, Darcy James Argue wrote: It's possible, but unsupported and not for the faint of heart. The process is essentially the same as running a Hackintosh -- i.e., running Mac OS X on a PC: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Vmware_how_to I wasn't really thinking

Re: [Finale] OT: trying to upgrade browsers

2010-03-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi David, Well, yes, Apple have a clear financial incentive to try to, ahem, encourage people to upgrade their hardware. Also, each time a new Mac model comes out, it is usually incapable of running *any* version of the OS that predates that hardware. For instance, I haven't looked into it,

Re: [Finale] OT: trying to upgrade browsers

2010-03-15 Thread David W. Fenton
On 15 Mar 2010 at 18:36, Darcy James Argue wrote: I did discover PearPC, a PPC emulator that is capable of running OS X 10.3 as a client OS (with some caveats). http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/about.html That looks promising -- one could get a new PC with the latest OS X and use this

[Finale] Re: OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-15 Thread Michael Lawlor
You could just half-depress the valves (this obviously doesn't work for trombones). Michael Lawlor - Original Message - Message: 8 Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:24:24 -0400 From: timothy.price timothy.pr...@valley.net Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments To:

Re: [Finale] Re: OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-15 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Well ... most Trbs. Dean On Mar 15, 2010, at 4:11 PM, Michael Lawlor wrote: You could just half-depress the valves (this obviously doesn't work for trombones). Michael Lawlor - Original Message - Message: 8 Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:24:24 -0400 From: timothy.price

RE: [Finale] merging files, and thanks!

2010-03-15 Thread dalvin boone
I did this, in Finale 2005, with a couple of Baroque transcriptions for brass quintet which had three to five movements in a separate files. It's been awhile, but if I remember correctly, I merged the multiple movements into one large file by adding a measure to the end of the first movement,