In addition, I'm serious about doubting markings. If a chart shows up with unusual registers, articulations, or instructions, one tends to pay a little closer attention to them. If something is patently illogical or unplayable, then that throws everything else into doubt as well, and I tend to examine every marking more closely and question it, checking against the score or asking if I am in doubt.
Another case in point: A few summers ago we did "The Wizard of Oz," and when I learned that there was a part for recorder I couldn't wait to see what it was like. Well, the orchestrator had written it as if it were to be played on piccolo (which is what we actually did because it wasn't worth having someone--probably me--play the passage on recorder). The orchestrator, not knowing beans about recorders or their notation, did not specify which size to use (probably had never seen anything but a soprano) and did not notate it in the correct octave.
John
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