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

[Keith Marr]

Listers have picked up on this comment, actuually it's a typo. I meant to 
say "tune TO the oboe". I bet the oboe player has problems when we tune to a 
church organ, as seems to be the case when there's one in the score. For 
that matter if 2nd oboe isn't in tune with 1st what do they do about it? 
Probably just play out of tune eh . . .

Cheers!

Keith in Bb/F/D
Bass Trombone
St Albans Symphony Orchestra
North Herts Big Band

----- Original Message ----- 
>>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.