[Dixielandjazz] Tuning, not strings

[Barrie Walter Marshall]

Talking about tuning, on the odd occasion when I have been playing with 
bands when they tune up the 2 brass players tune to each other and not the 
piano or the clarinet, I think the trombone tunes to Bb when the slide is 
fully in but should they not tune to the piano or clarinet.

I was playing a parade with a New Orleans Marching band and we had a dept 
clarinet player of many years experiance and had an army musician for many 
years, whern we tuned up he said, its a misake we will all be out of tune, 
tune as you march, is their some wisdom in this randome remark?

Barrie