[Trombone-l] Pit Stories

[Ray Horton]

Harlan Feinstein wrote:
> Oh, I guess this isn't precisely a pit story, but I remember doing an  
> early big-band (i.e., 30's style) gig, and one piece of music had the  
> following little box at the top of it:
>
> ---------------------------
> |      TEMPO METER        |
> |                         |
> |              V          |
> | Slow ------------- Fast |
> ---------------------------
>
> There was a little arrow (the "V" in this diagram), somewhere  
> arbitrarily between "slow" and "fast", and the group was expected to  
> get some benefit from this.  If it had any quantifiable bit of info in  
> it, I suppose it could have been useful, but there weren't any units  
> to be found.
>
> --Harlan
>
>   
I love that!  So cute, yet so little help!


Raymond Horton