[Trombone-l] Problems getting emails to Trombone-L

[Earl Needham]

	Since Monday, I have tried multiple times to send the following message 
to Trombone-L.  Apparently AVG's outgoing scan was doing something odd, 
maybe this one will get through.

	Earl

> Daniel Alessi wrote:
> <snip>
>> Since two or three weeks the director asks me to get a "darker" "more 
> like a
>> tuba" sound. Well. If he wants that sound he will get that sound, but how
>> can I make my sound darker? I play plenty of long tones, listening to
>> myself, but the sound doesn't really get darker, what to do? How 
> practice?
> 
>     I'm gonna say something unpopular -- he isn't looking for a Bass
> Trombone sound.  Listen to some recordings of George Roberts and see
> what I mean.
> 
>     If he's intent on getting a tuba sound, offer to play your part on
> euphonium -- that ought to be more like a tuba than anything else I can
> think of in this register.
> 
>     Earl
> 

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KD5XB -- Earl Needham
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