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Tuning Slides

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Subject: Tuning Slides
From: "Mike Lyons" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 19:53:16 -0000
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Hi Y'All,

Isn't it wonderful to be able to blow off some steam, (yours or someone
else's) and then reduce the volume slightly?

Of course, when you move to a new band, you need to be in tune with them, so
some adjustment is necessary. I find, oddly, that if the timps go slightly
OOT during a rehearsal it makes a pig's ear of my sense of self tuning.
However, a kick in the pants is usually good for what ails a recidivist
timpanist. It gripes the soul to have the beast you've just helped tune go
flat on you:)

Being a teechur, I unfortunately only have time to play in one (well 2 if
you count the juniors, 3 if you count the school's ...), band, so my
experience of re-tuning problems is possibly more limited than it might be.
Having said that, I do lead the school band, (by the nose), and sight
transpose hymn tunes with a number of less than well-tuned pianos in an
attempt to disguise the Year 9 attempts at tuned farting in assemblies.

I think the maxim must be needs must...


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