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Originally Posted by ecarroll  TMers,
A short anecdote and then I'll return to watching this thread with interest (and thank you, Robin)...
I once had a fabulous Scottish trumpet student at the Rotterdam Conservatory named Elaine Robertson. She later went on to a career in the BBC Symphony Orchestra. I brought my Stamp book to our first lesson and suggested that we do a few bends. "Like this?" she replied and proceeded to bend chromatically for 2 octaves starting at the g on the top of the staff to the low g and back.
We moved quickly to other things.
Oft-humbled by my students,
EC |
Ed, it was the haggis (
Haggis - you really need to learn how to get your tongue out of the way when ingesting that stuff) or a tongue completely immobilized by single malt scotch! My slurs become pretty chromatic thereafter....................