[Trombone-l] Numbers for study

[Daryl Burch]

Good point! Unless you whispered "gig... with beer!"



But if you wanted to segment the list you could whisper, "gig... with  
beer... bring S.O.M./trombotine!" (Depending on which segment you  
preferred, of course.)



The possibilities are ENDLESS!!





On Nov 23, 2009, at 6:31 AM, <thetubameister at roadrunner.com> <thetubameister at roadrunner.com 
 > wrote:

Only the sober one's would show though...

;-)

J.c.S.

---- Daryl Burch <daryl at burchinteractive.com> wrote:
> Or you could stand on a street corner and whisper "gig" and see how
> many show up...
>
> (I know. I know. I'm not helping. Back in my cave I go...)
>
> #;-)
>
> On Nov 20, 2009, at 1:52 PM, Martin Hubel wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> You mentioned the ITA and pizza places, so here are a couple of ideas:
>
> 1. There are currently 7937 members of tromboneforum.org. This is a
> worldwide number, so use 1 factor to remove the non-US players, and
> another
> factor to estimate the percentage of players who have not joined the
> forum.
>
> 2. There are various sources for old serial numbers around. Estimate  
> the
> number of horns made, and again use a factor to remove destroyed
> instruments
> or players that own more than 1 instrument.
>
> just my $2 /100
>
> Martin
>
> ps. Of no help at all, but my friend's son is one of 43 trombonists in
> the
> Florida State University marching band. Gotta love statistics
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Scott Bean <trombean at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am co writing a study with my pulmonologist, on a major lung
>> debilitation
>> that I have had for 15 years.  We need to estimate how many people
>> might
>> play a brass instrument in the US, even just trombone would do,
>> before the
>> article goes to print.  Would anyone have an idea on how I could
>> figure
>> this
>> out?  I tried ITA already. I am considering calling all of the Pizza
>> Delivery places around major Universities, but short of that, I'm
>> stumped.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>>
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
>>
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