[Dixielandjazz] Tuning, not strings

[Dave Hanson]

I play a lot of Dixieland and we tune to D which is also a closed position on the trombone. Unless a piano is way out of tune, a trombone can make the adjustment and be spot on, but that doesn't mean the rest of the band will be in tune. When that happens the piano player will set up his/her trusty electronic keyboard. We are in tune and thankful for the modern technology.

Dave Hanson
Trombone
Atlanta
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Barrie Walter Marshall 
  To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 6:01 AM
  Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Tuning, not strings


  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 


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