Les - Yes! I took jazz piano privately a few years back from a well-known jazz arranger. He has written university level textbooks on jazz and arranging - has arranged for all types of ensembles for groups as diverse as the Turtle Island Quartet to high school marching bands. Been doin' it for over 40 years. In his "music room" he has THE LOUSIEST Kimball Whitney spinet you can imagine, and a "sound system" that looked like a $2 find at a garage sale. I asked him about it, and he said (pointing to the room in general) "it's not as important what it sounds like in here. What counts is what it sounds like (pointing to his head) in HERE!" There are a lot of realities! Mark Potter bases-loaded@juno.com On Sun, 4 Apr 1999 15:06:56 -0500 Leslie W Bartlett <lesbart@juno.com> writes: >We had a trumpeter at our Easter church thing, used to be first >trumpet for Buddy Rich, and several years as first for Stan Kenton- >the list of what he's done is extensive. TV- Movies- all that kind >of stuff. Anyhoooo I asked him about temperaments. > >"I don't care. Get me somewhere near A-440. That's all I care >about."..................... >les bartlett >houston >___________________________________________________________________ >You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get >completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html >or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
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