It’s really worth noting that literally nothing mentioned in that unnecessarily long post has anything to do with blind auditions.

Blind auditions can be conducted with or without being cattle calls.

Blind auditions can be run whether the committee is paid or not.

Private corporations are beheld ...

Blind audition practices are necessary if an audition is going to have any chance of being remotely fair. It's not perfect, but it is far more merit-based than the "conductor invites people up to his hotel room" days. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to consider dropping the screen (such as ...

it feels like these orchestras decide who they want before the fact



Aren't the principal trumpet and tuba player in The Phoenix Symphony married?

Surely that's just a coincidence.

Just an observation but in my city Orchestra, nearly everyone is either friends or students or friends of ...

Space Force strenuously objects to this outrageous omission! :tuba:


I wasn't thinking of this during my last post since I was focusing on Air Force Song, but I do hope that you'll include the Space Force Song, "Sempre Supra" in your arrangement. The Air Force owns the copyright for this one ...

Not that this has stopped anyone ever, but the Air Force Song is technically still under copyright and is owned by Carl Fischer. Carl Fischer doesn't have a great track record of authorizing arrangements of it (I know of at least one medley that uses "Air Force Blue" instead because the arranger was ...

Where I disagree is with how much certainty is required before taking the audition. “Likely to accept” can sound reasonable, but there are too many unknowns before the process begins . A candidate may not know how they feel about the orchestra, the work environment, the city, the final ...

You’ve misrepresented what I wrote. I said “they should be informed enough to know that they are likely to accept the job if offered it.” It’s not a guarantee or a commitment. It’s doing due diligence to understand whether your investment is worth it. The higher the cost of auditioning, the more ...

The immediate decision is simply whether the audition is worth taking. My point is that he should take it, see how he performs, and then make decisions based on the actual result. If he advances or wins, then it makes sense to take a deeper look at what living in Houston would be like.


I ...

If the tuba section can cover the full passage starting from figure 27, they probably should. In the orchestra original, the full passage is covered in the strings, with the tuba only coming in at the very end. In a concert band version, you don't have a string section covering all of that, so the ...

The banda parts for 1812 are extra brass band parts (with flexible instrumentation) originally written to reinforce the orchestra. I wouldn't consider them as primary source material for a band arrangement, but would instead look at the main orchestra parts.

Can you be more specific about which ...

I got it for a bit the other morning, but it was resolved when I came back later after having done nothing. I believe I only experienced it on my iPhone. Sorry I can't recreate the issue to help.

I have already explained this. If the room is too small, there is no actual propagation of the true fundamental. There are interactions of the overtones which the ear may perceive as a fundamental, but it is a perception, not an actual propagation of the fundamental.

Pipe organ builders have ...

I have already explained this. If the room is too small, there is no actual propagation of the true fundamental. There are interactions of the overtones which the ear may perceive as a fundamental, but it is a perception, not an actual propagation of the fundamental.

Pipe organ builders have been ...

Galileo and Copernicus were at one point considered heretics and later proven right.

Again, PLEASE go read and study a basic acoustical physics book or course to better understand how sound waves really work, especially with the brain.


It would be easier if you addressed the disparity rather ...

I think there's a a bit of people talking past each other and not addressing direct points being made. thedancingsousa specifically referred to a related comment you made in a different thread, specifically:

5) wavelength of the note. If you are doing these indoors, if the room is not large enough ...

I went to school with a guy who played a PT6-P that stacked some glued silicone/rubber disks onto his trigger to get it to the right height. I wish I could tell you exactly what they were, but I don’t know. I imagine it was softer/more comfortable than cork, but cork could more easily be shaped to ...

Thanks for agreeing to not troll me anymore. I hope you’ll consider extending the same kind courtesy to other members of this forum.

I’ve had a few posts deleted here, but I’ve never pretended that it was anyone’s fault other than my own. If the moderator’s are deleting posts, then I trust that ...

finally:
I've had two or three younger players send me notes over the course of this long debate to thank me for expressing my beliefs in regards to this. It's not that their lips - when playing - were ever hitting against each other in the middle when they were playing, but it seems as though ...

There are some images used later in the video that more clearly depict an ophicleide (2:58, for example). My guess would be that any instruments depicted with an upright bell in this video were meant to be ophicleide.

The video doesn't provide much (any?) information about the sources of the images ...

I know a tuba player who would play through the bass parts to the entire Beethoven symphonies (once a year I think) while playing along to various recordings. I haven't gotten around to trying this myself, but I have to imagine it would be a heck of a workout.