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sungfw

I am not sure I can offer a true apples to apples comparison but here are the examples I had in mind. On Euphonium for years I used a Perantucci 4 with a .315” throat. The Giddings Kadja, with a very similar rim size and depth but a .285 throat really improved my upper register intonation (which te...

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spencercarran wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 22, 2021 1:34 pm
Factually accurate does not necessarily mean non-political (especially in current US context), and I don't see a clear distinction between comments like the above and user posts that moderators have recently deemed off limits

D'accord!

sungfw

FedEx FTW. FTW? In English? Abbreviation of "For the win." FedEx around here SUX, with a capital S, U, and X. There's not a week goes by that they don't deliver packages addressed to the church I work at to a church 2 miles away (different denomination, different name, on an entirely different road...

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Nobody plays saxhorns any more, though (except in Civil War Reconstruction bands). Oh, really? Opus 333 Saxhorn Quartet Opus 333 Quartet, Bernstein: Candide Overture Opus 333 Quartet, Dvorak: Suite Americanie Opus 333 Quartet, Albeniz: Asturias Opus 333 Quartet, Sarasate: Zapateado, Danses espagnol...

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Around here, at least, there are way more locations and shifts than there are volunteers to cover them. Rather than just crashing a bell ringer, contact your local SA citadel or office and sign up for a shift. That way they can arrange to cover another location instead of doubling up on one.

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Note that improvisation is not considered infringement on a song. The part that is copywritten is the actual melody, not the chord structure. Uh ... not necessarily: Jazz and Copyright Law Questioning the Copyright Act: Is Copyright Doing It Right? * Are Bad Copyright Laws Killing Jazz And Harming ...

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You keep talking about live performances... At least that's what I gather since you mentioned a church group. I give up lol. News flash for ya, buddy: there's this newfangled technology that you've apparently never heard of called "broadcasting" where you can transmit a live performance in real tim...

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When this second part has been challenged in court, they usually have ordinary people listen to the original and the cover version. If the consensus is that they both sound like the same song, then too bad copyright holder -- it's a legit cover version. Source? I'm curious to know where you got thi...

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Extracting parts by listening to the CD, or having a computer play the the study score might as well be the same thing. They "might as well be the same thing" in your opinion, but, based on how courts have interpreted the compulsory license provision to date, it's highly unlikely that a court would...

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That's why I mention a CD release...in the first sentence you quoted... Nowhere did I talk about a public performance, because I know that would be illegal. You can record the Kalevi Aho using a compulsory license, no doubt about that. But would they try to get you for using an arrangement (piano r...

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The audacity of a CD release of, say, the Kalevi Aho Symphony 9 played from the study score that had been extracted into parts as allowed by the arranging provision in the compulsory licenses law. Or just by a computer reading the study score. Or a recording of the piano reduction with trombone and...

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And to bring it back to the OP, I thought best case scenario the arranger would still split the rights/profits with the original copyright holder. You have it exactly backward. If the underlying work is in copyright, an arranger has NO rights beyond what the copyright holder explicitly grants, even...

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Note that if you want to sell this arrangement, I'm sure the arranger won't object as long as his title to the copyright is clear (and you pay some royalties -- usually a small percentage). If the arranger owns the copyright, I don't think you can safely assume that to be the case. Copyright grants...

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https://musescore.com/user/12682446/scores/6178785 Here's a quartet arrangement of White Christmas that I did. I could probably expand it to 8 parts (Working on a 12-part arrangement of a video game theme, in fact). Short and not too difficult. Just a note that the copyright for White Christmas is ...

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A Masters may get you in the door as an adjunct at the community college level or a smaller college (the music equivalent of an NAIA or NCAA Div III school) if you're a known quantity to the right people in the music department, but it's highly unlikely to get you a sniff at a "Div I/II" school unle...

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conn88Hagmann wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 18, 2020 3:26 am
Ok so he was too stupid to use a VPN.

Or smart enough to spoof his location or relay (yes, it can be done in realtime) through a compromised device ...

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WilliamLang wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:50 pm
for some people, larger rims help endurance. for some, they don't. either way, 30 minutes straight on euhponium will tire almost anyone who is not primarily a euphoniumist.

FTFY.

sungfw

Find some place to play them both unmuted: you may find that without the boat anchor one sings for you and the other doesn't. In that case, sell the one that doesn't. If they're both about the same, what C4Tb86 said.

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Leif, I usually understand what you are saying (except for that transliterated adage ;) ). Really? Seems pretty obvious that it's an analogue to "Necessity is the mother of invention," no? :idk: AOBTW … it's translated , not transliterated . Translate: to turn from one language into another or from...

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Basbasun wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 27, 2020 3:26 am
Well, yes you are probably right. But there are othere countries outside US. Then USPS is really bad.

No worse (or better), in my experience, than other countries' carriers shipping to the US.

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Totally agree, but I also think Fillmore is a soft target. He is relatively speaking a nobody. We are dancing around the elephant in the room. Big deal, Fillmore was a racist and his music can be quietly shelved for good. No great loss. neither man nor music. But someone with much more clout? A Wag...

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Again- missing the point. The "artist with an iffy background" is not this case. This is a case of an artist with an iffy background, writing music that is racist in its own nature . Wagner was an anti-semite, but his music was not inherently anti-semitic on purpose (unless someone has evidence to ...

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Doug, do you make a special shank for his Olds Recording? I suspect he has the one with the somewhat smaller shank. Options SHANKS The taper on the mouthpiece shank should be the same as the taper in the instrument's receiver to avoid gaps or disturbances in the air column of the instrument, and to...

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Do you consider summarily firing someone preceding any hearing or any other legal defense, due process? Guilty until proven innocent? Have you bothered Googling screenshots of Ms Salas' posts ? [NB: posts, plural, not singular.] Quite apart from the fact that the presumption of innocence is a princ...

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They aren't allowed to look at a prospective employee's public posts? There are exceptions where it probably would be allowed. But in theory, an employer that refuses to hire someone because of his writings on social media can be legally blamed. That may be the case in Switzerland, but it's not in ...

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Checking a potential hire's social media should pretty much be mandatory - particularly for fields like education and law enforcement. Don't know how it is in the US. But doing that here in Switzerland would be absolutely illegal. I don't say it isn't done though... There is no federal legislation ...

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These tapers refer to standard tapers used in machining/manufacture. The B&S taper (Brown and Sharpe) is known as the Remington taper to us trombonists. Conn used to use the B&S taper on their large bore instruments. The Schilke long shank was designed to fit in either a B&S or Morse taper leadpipe...

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How can someone who was so prolific before moving to L.A. basically vanish professionally after moving to L.A. even though he lived more than 30% of his life in L.A.? That's really a puzzle. According to this review of Virtuoso Trombone Concertos on Amazon, Alschausky left for America in 1924, sett...

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I spent a few months working through her YT videos, several year ago, after Sam Burtis (TTF_Sabutin) mentioned that she was one of the few people who were currently teaching Caruso's methods. Several of them were quite helpful (at least to me), particularly the one on slurring across range breaks (w...

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Seems clear enough, no??? :idk: What I am implying is that you are looking for something to challenge you, to call forth your passion and, at the same time, is yours. To me, that means creating something that is you from within, not from anybody else. Use your imagination and do what really inspire...

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Gary wrote: ↑
Fri May 08, 2020 9:39 am
I must be missing something . . why are you asking us?

Digidog wrote: ↑
Fri May 08, 2020 2:22 am
So I'm looking for ideas that might inspire me, and give me some fresh takes on what to arrange or compose; bring it on!

Seems clear enough, no???

sungfw

If you want to ship use FedEx; I had several get through quickly with them. In my experience, FedEx is BY FAR the worst parcel delivery service. BY. FAR. Between packages showing as out for delivery not being delivered three days in a row because "the driver is out sick" (yes, the supervisor at the...

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The article, however, is lacking in both respects: it is neither well-informed, nor particularly articulate. It seeks to limit the artistic palette of both composer and performer by cherry-picking examples of pieces that place their entire claim to fame solely on raucous dynamics, and building a ca...

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They're in Settings > Music > Playback. [Note: I know several people who say that changing them doesn't make a difference in recording quality for them, and others say it does (it does for me), and one guy who says it makes a difference on his iPad but not on his iPhone. No idea why it works for som...

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dershem wrote: ↑
Sun Dec 09, 2018 12:16 pm
Bill Watrous used to have a regular ant about this.

Yup. It bugged him a little. If it REALLY bugged him, he'd of had a gi ant.

sungfw

That depends on your threat model. At the moment, possibly nothing. Or, possibly everything. Again, for private lessons, so long as you aren't violating FERPA or similar, I don't think you need much worry about it. If you need to be secure from a nation-state actor, you wouldn't need to take my adv...

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Which is to say it's probably okay for lessons but there are serious reasons outside of the PEBKAC (problem exists between keyboard and chair) issues to be concerned about utilization of zoom. So what video conferencing platform that doesn't have analogous security or privacy issues do you recommen...

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While the audio files can be exported as lossless, the recording itself is still affected by the automatic audio compression in the iPhone. If the mic level could be adjusted and the compressor turned off, that'd be perfect, but try as a might I can't figure out how to do that. For an example of wh...

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I have a lot of students who only have their iPhone to record on and of course there are issues there - namely the auto compression that isn't adjustable. [snip] Bonus points for affordable gear! How about FREE, as in "free beer" as opposed to "free speech"? The iOS Voice Memos app offers lossless ...

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There way more audio settings you can mess with on a computer that makes the private lesson better. I can list those if anyone’s interested. It's not like there aren't smartphone apps that will let you mess with its audio setting—in particular, its mic settings, since, according to the OP, it's his...

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bigbandbone wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 11, 2020 4:49 pm
I contacted the makers of Listerene directly and asked if it kills COVID19. They said no.

Unless they've actually tested it and have the FDA's approval, I wouldn't expect their lawyers to allow them to say yes, for liability reasons, even if it does.

sungfw

zoom: good for group lessons, maybe the easiest learning curve? but there are a lot of security concerns. seems to be what most schools gravitated towards but are now second guessing. best sound quality. Make sure to look up how to set up a password for your room to avoid "zoombombing" Most of the ...

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Assuming you have a smartphone and/or laptop, have you tried using the Zoom app for your smartphone or tablet instead of your your laptop? The smartphone/tablet mic will be significantly better than the one in your laptop. Stream to your TV/projector (assuming you have access to a streaming device; ...

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ThePousane, thank you for taking the time to provide more background information on the valve and the leadpipe issues. Based on your description of the larger context, and in the absence of a countervailing explanation by your teacher, it certainly appears that your teacher is being unreasonable in ...

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The larger point is that dictation or restriction of equipment choices by employers is not an uncommon practice, nor is the requirement—prevalent in the blue collar world, and increasingly common in the white collar world—that employees purchase the necessary ordinary tools of their trade at their ...

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harrisonreed wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 30, 2020 3:20 am
Them that gots the gold make the rules lol. How many music degrees have pauperized the student? Complete opposite situation.

Clearly, the metaphor went completely over your head.

sungfw

In the "real world" of the Berlin Philharmonic, the person dictating instrument choice would also be paying you a six figure salary, if not outright providing that instrument, which somewhat changes the dynamic. In the specific case of the Berlin Phil, the BP does NOT provide instruments, except fo...

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I don't think I said anything negative about any person, especially anyone's character, and certainly did NOT make any accusations, so please don't put words in my mouth. I think all I said was, "sounds bogus, you're in a program you don't want to follow, maybe it's bad advice, maybe it's good, but...

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That sounds like a bogus program to me. What is the point of even attending if you are following the teacher's advice but not really trusting it, and planning on abandoning it when you leave? Maybe the advice is bogus. Maybe they are a good teacher. That's besides the point. Shouldn't you be listen...

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afugate wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 27, 2020 7:12 am
It must be a fake.

My copy isn't like that at all. The pages are high quality paper. Bought mine about 5-6 years ago.

What he said.

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