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talasiga wrote:
Lambchop wrote:
vomitbunny wrote:I keep my tuning slide really slick so I can use it like a trombone slide while I'm playing.
You have such a cute sense of humor, Bun!

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Hmmm...

9 out of 10 cannibals agree, vegetarians taste better!
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peeplj wrote:
talasiga wrote:
Lambchop wrote: You have such a cute sense of humor, Bun!

:D
vegetarians unite!
Hmmm...

9 out of 10 cannibals agree, vegetarians taste better!
:twisted:

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And they're on menus everywhere. Why just tonight, while eating out at the Tip Top Cafe in San Antonio, I saw that they have a Vegetarian Platter... How do you cook vegetarians, anyway? :boggle:
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dow wrote:
peeplj wrote:
talasiga wrote: vegetarians unite!
Hmmm...

9 out of 10 cannibals agree, vegetarians taste better!
:twisted:



--James
And they're on menus everywhere. Why just tonight, while eating out at the Tip Top Cafe in San Antonio, I saw that they have a Vegetarian Platter... How do you cook vegetarians, anyway? :boggle:
I've heard they taste best fried in the grease of a veal calf. 8) :twisted:
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Ahhhhhh, yesss.................

I see (in typical scholarly fashion) the class has spent the homework period passing notes instead of reading the assignment...... :o

We'll pass on today's lecture......"Why One Would Want to Bend Notes in the First Place"......... :cry:

Those interested should read Benade........Secs. 15.3,15.4,15.6.......extra credit for 15.5.................. :-?

(Tal........I,m really surprised at your lack of attention this semester... :lol: )


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Jack Bradshaw wrote:"Why One Would Want to Bend Notes in the First Place"
Well the F nat, I would assume that you would need to (not part of the original sidcussion because this is cross fingering). You can usually find creative fingerings for the third octave (disclamer I am more a fife/piccolo player at the moment) So I would think that again it would be best to concentrate on the lower octaves.

While playing with others cork adjustment would bring the flute partly out of tune with its self, so again a necessity.

I also heard that and tuning to “Perfict” pitch would be different than tuning to “piano” pitch (sorry I do not know the correct termonology). Adjusting pitch, again seems to be a necicity depending on who you play with.

Also It seems like something to thinkabout if you want to have dynamics rather than playing lous all the time.
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dow wrote:
9 out of 10 cannibals agree, vegetarians taste better!
:twisted:

--James
And they're on menus everywhere. Why just tonight, while eating out at the Tip Top Cafe in San Antonio, I saw that they have a Vegetarian Platter... How do you cook vegetarians, anyway? :boggle:
Ohhhh! You're in San Antonio!

Words cannot express how much I miss real fajitas. :cry: :cry: :cry:

It doesn't matter what kind, either . . . vegetarian . . . beef . . . chicken . . . it's just not the same anywhere else.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled thread . . .
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Jack Bradshaw wrote: ......
Tal........I,m really surprised at your lack of attention this semester... :lol:
.........

Is it surprising that I was distracted by a Lambchop fraternising with a chundering wabbit?
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No...in this case, I guess not.....you are excused...
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As an addendum, a friend just passed along this little tidbit:

http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/Explore ... _1_p1.html

The "blue" notes refered to here are only briefly touched in Benade.

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Sometimes when you are playing a tight musical passage, there isn't room for the note to fit in, so you have to bend it to make it fit. Sorta like undertakers do when they get a body that's too tall.
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For some weird reason, that seems to make perfect sense.....
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kinda grows on ya, don't he?
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I.D.10-t wrote:
Jack Bradshaw wrote:"Why One Would Want to Bend Notes in the First Place"
Well the F nat, I would assume that you would need to (not part of the original sidcussion because this is cross fingering). You can usually find creative fingerings for the third octave (disclamer I am more a fife/piccolo player at the moment) So I would think that again it would be best to concentrate on the lower octaves.

While playing with others cork adjustment would bring the flute partly out of tune with its self, so again a necessity.

I also heard that and tuning to “Perfict” pitch would be different than tuning to “piano” pitch (sorry I do not know the correct termonology). Adjusting pitch, again seems to be a necicity depending on who you play with.

Also It seems like something to thinkabout if you want to have dynamics rather than playing lous all the time.

why i bend notes might not necessarily be to get a note to fit any scale at all, but perhaps to break out of a 'scale-ized' approach to music making, or maybe to break a pattern of notes by injecting a bit of unpredictability and creativity. for instance a slightly flat shading to a note can put a bit of funk into a tune, especially done randomly.
i don't think there are any rules that would explain this.


what comes to mind are some great old time itm fiddlers who sort of played that way, some say they had quirky intonation but i'd say they just might be a couple steps ahead of the gang...or maybe behind...
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