[Dixielandjazz] More on Sopramno Sax

Paul Edgerton paul.edgerton at gmail.com
Mon Mar 17 10:06:23 PDT 2008


On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 3:49 AM, Russ Guarino <russguarino at comcast.net> wrote:
> When I taught a year of middle school, I had a large group of pretty good young string players.
>
>  The high school marching band was short of players and it lead to a thought that if I could get about 10 sopranos, it would be the
>  earliest thing in the world to teach the accomplished string players to play the horn, using first & second trumpet parts. They would
>  be impressed to play with the high schoolers, wtih uniforms, and after getting over a little fear, march.... gosh.

That's an interesting idea, Russ. And I bet that if kilts were the
uniform, the sound would be convincing too!

-- Paul Edgerton



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