[Trombone-l] (WAS) How to learn about F attachment

[Daniel Pliskin]

Keith,
>
>I played next to a guy a few months ago who tuned his fourth line F on the
>valve to the same note on the open horn. It didn't seem to occur to him to
>tune the oboe . . . hmmm!

The reason the orchestra tunes to the oboes is that you can’t tune an oboe.  
The best you can do is to carve a new reed, in a slightly different pitch.

DanP

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