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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Dave Gallaher <micdave@hiwaay.net> wrote: > One of the great discoveries of my cornet-playing days was pulling the > tuning slide out until the normal Bb pitching became A. (This works >better > on a cornet's conical bore than on a trumpet's tubular bore, btw). > dave That was interesting to hear! I had to do a similar trick with a remix of choir music I was commissioned for. I was sent multi track recordings of the choir but they had been recording too low. They sang somewhere down at 439 instead of at 440, so when I was going to record alto flute I had to pull out the mouthpiece optimally. The flute did hit the correct "bad" pitch but it gave a completely different feel to play. > > Too bad it won't work the same way by extending the tenor mouthpiece... > Well, on the other hand I think one of the most fun part of playing reed (and wind) instruments, compared to guitars, is that these instrument goes through a much bigger change when used in another key. What might be problematic in a band arrangement situation can be pure inspiration if you play in a music context that allows you to change melodies and stuff to take advance of how the air bounces inside the sax in that other key - or how the mechanics work differently in another key. -- Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) www.myspace.com/perboysen www.stockholm-athens.com