In one word? Tradition...
-William In a message dated 9/4/2004 9:15:19 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Horn transposing is a nice science/art that a horn player has to have in his/her bag of 'goodies', yada yada but sometimes it can be tedious and a bit nerve racking especially when the pressure of the moment comes for an exposed or solo part. Isn't there by now a computer program that can be used to put these odd transposing keyed pieces back into the key of F for the horn and have it on manuscript ready made for us to play. We can put a man on the moon and land on Mars, surely we can put the horn in F, and on paper, can't we? Jim _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org

