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Old 06-30-2006, 12:13 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Her is my two cents. I played on a 14a4a and a 13a4a for awhile. I couldn't play pianissamo if I had to. The tight back bores made air flow too fast to get a
good soft tone. I had split tones in a Christmas concert because the cup was too shallow.
I was getting extreme loud in my house just doing exercises. About two months into the trial my endurance crapped out.

My Bach 3D is a mixture of control I liked for church and lead playing.

I use lead playing with apprehension. I wasn't good at it. We played big band for fun. We never did play in public.
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