You could have told the tuba player, that you remember that Mr.Jacobs had said, never tapping with the right foot & if that doesnt work with the left foot, to stop tapping. The tuba player might have digested that.
If telling a lie, it must be convincing. Or tapping a bit earlier or later than the poor tuba fellow ? ##################################################################### Am 04.04.2011 um 04:36 schrieb Steven Mumford: > > > This reminds me of a concert a few years ago where I ended up sitting > directly to the right of the tuba player. Throughout all the rehearsals, on > every piece, he was tapping his size 12 flapper right foot about as high and > as loudly as I've ever seen anybody do it, consistently just a bit behind the > conductor's beat. I asked him politely a couple of times if he would mind > not doing that. He's a nice guy that I've known for quite awhile but this > was the first time we had played together. He replied that Mr. Jacobs had > told him he should always tap his foot. Sigh. By the time the concert came > around, the distraction had just become a little too much for me, and during > a particularly rhythmic piece I reached over with my left foot and stepped on > his foot and held it firmly down. He struggled like a wild animal to get > free but I hung in there till the end of the piece as we rocketed through > that crazy torrent of notes and rhythms. > See? He didn't need to tap his foot after all. > > - Steve Mumford > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/hpizka%40me.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
