At 5:21 AM -0400 6/20/06, dhbailey wrote:
Steve Currington wrote:
Carl Dershem wrote:
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If you're trying to he authentic, do what he did. He probably had a
reason.
If you're trying to be played right the first time, bass clef is
the first clef for trombonists, and the one they read without a
seond thought (with fewer mistakes).
Of course that assumes you are not a British Brass Band player where the
non bass troms always only read treble cleft and almost never Bass Cleft
And aren't the British Brass Band trombones not only in the treble
clef but also transposed to Bb like Baritone T.C. in U.S. band music?
I believe that's correct. (Which also just happens to make it
equivalent to tenor clef!!) But while Steve's comment is quite
correct, I'd guess that the number of trombonists in the U.S. who
ONLY read Brass Band treble clef can be counted on the fingers of one
foot! All beginning school band music has trombones in bass clef.
The difference, I think, is that we have school bands almost
everywhere as the primary introduction to playing instruments, and
the Brits do not.
John
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