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trumpetnick · 03-12-2007, 04:32 AM

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Originally Posted by rowuk

6) Have somebody go into the hall itself and listen. It could just be that the conductors' position was not a place with a balanced sound but the hall was OK.
7) Last resort? Play at your normal musically acceptable volume, but turn blue in the face to make the conductor think that you are playing louder! I have used this trick several times to great advantage

I like that, Robin!

Turn a blue face...that is a real artist (actor). ABC, what is you setting? I mean orchestral, concert band, or? It may happen that the others are too loud, but this can rarely happen in a symphony orchestra.
I had a similar experience and sometimes I really start to think that some conductors are deaf...Recently my orchestra was playing some concerts in great concert halls in Switzerland and Spain (Geneva-Victoria Hall, Barcelona - Palau de Musica and some nice hall in Zaragoza which name I cannot recall). Our orchestra rarely plays in such venues so we are used to places which are not very good accousticaly(like what you are describing). Because of that the brass is playing a bit louder to get through. As I did not have to play at Geneva, I stayed a bit to listen. The brass section was playing about the same volume as usually but because the hall had such an accoustic tha one could hear very clearly everything the brass became too loud. But the conductor did not even bother to make remark about it...probably he did not even noticed it...