Re: tuning lead pipe
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2022 4:04 pm
...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.
...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.