| i work as a substitute band director. i would love to see more transcriptions played, but the problem with doing a lot of them is when a school band as 5-6 clarinets, 1 trombone no tuba, 12 saxophones and 15 drummers (word used is delibrate, most of them can only bang drum loudly) this is not an exaggeration i have seen several bands at the junior and senior high like this. the kids all want to play sax, and drum. so manipulating the instrumentation becomes an issue. plus at least from what i see the kids aren't willing to put the individual time in to do a transcription right, and there is a limit on how much one can spoonfeed the kids
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