At a Crossroads with Playing....
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Three Valves
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Re: At a Crossroads with Playing....
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The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column
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TU422L with TU25
1964 Conn 36k with CB Arnold Jacobs
Accent (By B&S) 952R with Bach12
The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column
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Re: At a Crossroads with Playing....
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Thought Criminal
Mack Brass Artiste
TU422L with TU25
1964 Conn 36k with CB Arnold Jacobs
Accent (By B&S) 952R with Bach12
The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column
Mack Brass Artiste
TU422L with TU25
1964 Conn 36k with CB Arnold Jacobs
Accent (By B&S) 952R with Bach12
The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column
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KingTuba1241X
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Re: At a Crossroads with Playing....
Leaning towards staying on BBb guys. I have run all the numbers and scenarios (for me personally including my financial situation and geolocation) and even though the best CC tuba is available to me with little monetary risk, I don't want to be away from professional type gigs and rehearsals studying a new horn at this time. I should have done this in say...April 2020 when I had 17 months of down time but who knew right?
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Rick Denney
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Re: At a Crossroads with Playing....
Well, let me revise that, then, by saying "For guys like you and me, it's not throwing a switch."bloke wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 8:55 pmI don't believe (after encountering quite a few people over the last 65 years) that all brains/minds work the same way.Rick Denney wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 7:29 pm 1. It’s not “throwing a switch.” It’s learning a new instrument, from scratch
Your "not" may (or may "not"...??) be true, depending on the brain/mind....
If the OP was brilliant with languages and found it easy to learn fingerings for another pitch, he might not have been tempted to start the thread.
But even for those who find it easy, the process is, I think, the same, unless they want to use brain cells transposing all the time. Maybe their brains do that readily enough an unconsciously enough that it doesn't matter, but after months or years of going it, they may find that their brains aren't doing it any more, and they are playing the instrument as it is instead of as it differs from something they already know.
Those who find it easy, however, just go through that process a lot more quickly and unconsciously.
It's true for those who find it easy to learn languages, as well.
Rick "who does not find it easy to learn other languages, having devoted his energies to learning one well" Denney