[Trombone-l] Pitch (second attempt)

[Roger Hecht]

At 05:16 PM 3/1/2006, Bruce Faske wrote:
>Roger and Co.
>
>I've been focusing on the first few pages of the
>Scholossberg, actually.  Particularly the exercize
>with the 4 quarter note, half note, half rest figure.
>low F, middle F, middle G, middle F, low F half note
>with fermata.  Forte dynamics throughout the phrase.
>It's harder than I thought!

So much for my theory. So try this one. Are you blowing sharp as you 
get loud? To the point where you've gotten used to being sharp? It's 
easy to do. A tuner can answer that one.


>I've been focusing on blowing through these notes, at
>about quarter note equals 52, and using the low F to
>"springboard" to the upper notes.

Not sure what this means, but I can picture something like it that 
involves tightening up for the upper notes. Just a guess.

>   I haven't even
>cracked the second half of the book, because I wanted
>to make sure the first few exercizes were done
>correctly.
>
>On another note, I looked at my mouthpiece today, and
>sure enough, it sets in the receiver quite a bit
>farther than on the Edwards...maybe it's time for
>teflon tape?

For some reason, I thought you had checked this. Perhaps you have 
found the culprit. There still may be something in your changing your 
approach somehow after switching horns. Hard to say from this distance.
Roger Hecht