[Trombone-l] Pit Stories

[Jeff Albert]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Adrian Drover <slide at adios.co.uk> wrote:
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>> From: Clay McCarter
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>> I play in a big band and once played a chart with backwards note stems.
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> That was quite common in hand written scores.  I'm afraid I was one of the
> guilty ones of such practice (for the sake of speed copying).  It became a
> habit and strangely enough never raised any protests from the players.
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> A.
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That could be a British Empire thing.  I remember playing charts for
several British artists, and even an Australian that were all copied
with the stems on the "wrong" side of the note head.  It was
consistent within their books.

Jeff

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