tuning lead pipe

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...and it's interesting how the "wide-open low C" thing - so often - goes hand-in-hand with "challenging intonation characteristics...

...and - with bass trombones - the wide-open-everything" thing - so often - goes hand-in-hand with a not-interesting type of sonority.

It's all a balancing act, isn't it?

To me, one pitch - about which some people claim to not be able to center - doesn't balance - in importance - against all the rest of the pitches, particularly when no everyone find it to be a problem.

I can only imagine what saxophones, oboes, bassoons, and flutes would be like, were it that all of their players insisted that the low B be just as easy to play as all the other pitches.