Michael Simpson wrote:
I can't remember not knowing how to read the grand staff, but C clefs still give me more trouble than they should. I remember, from scoring my symphony for brass, that a tenor clef trombone and a Bb trumpet playing an octave higher use the same lines and spaces. There are other tricks too, I bet.
The best-known is that used by Eb tubas and Baritone Saxes -- take the part in bass clef, subtract three flats, and read with a treble clef.
Works great in theory, and works great for bari sax players, but I'm playing Eb tuba in community band, and I was never able to transfer the intellectual knowlege to my fingers. I just learned another set of fingerings. (And had to learn a 3rd set when I played a CC tuba in the pit for "Annie.") I can now get confused equally well with three different sets of tuba fingerings!
On the other hand, minus being able to find a bassoonist, for the past two summers we've had a bari sax covering the bassoon books. How he handled the tenor clef places I didn't even ask!! It was a dissapointment on "King & I," because the more exotic double reed sound was really needed, but it worked fine on "My Fair Lady."
John
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