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band prank

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Subject: band prank
From: jpw <jaypee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 20:25:03 -0500 (EST)
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The Bloomington (Indiana) Community Band had in those days 
one tuba (me) and one barfonium (undifferentiated 
baritone/euphonium). We were doing the Holst Suite for band
(I think no. 1 -- the one that begins with a chaconne in Eb,
starting with an announcement of the theme by soli tubas and
barfoniums.

By prearrangement, the euphonium player and I played the 
entire passage in E natural instead of Eb. Apparently no-one
in the band had absolute pitch, or else they thought that our
instruments were badly mistuned. So no-one seemed to notice
until the rest of the band entered -- in the correct key! The
conductor was nonplussed for a moment, then went back to the
beginning with the explanation that she must have given us a
wrong tempo.

Fair enough -- we gave her a bad time, she gave us a wrong tempo.

This was during rehearsal, of course.

Play well!   Basil Wentworth


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