Re: Re: Re: Re: Convincing a school to buy a CC


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Posted by CC Rider on July 18, 2002 at 09:07:46:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Convincing a school to buy a CC posted by Why is the CC better on July 17, 2002 at 22:53:44:

School bands draw their traditions from the Bb-Eb Brass Bands.

It probably really doesn't matter what keys instruments are built in as long as

- they work - play OK in tune, etc.
- there is written music that current and subsequent students can read and are trained to read

The UK has (sort of) proven that driving on the left side of the road works fine. The question is, to school bands want to switch from b-flat trumpets to c trumpets, BBb tubas to CC tubas...

...just as they switched from Eb mellophones to F horns about half a century ago.

Where are the A clarinets / C trombones? What happened to the saxophones in C?

For that matter, where is the extensive literature (at all difficulty levels) written in # keys?

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Some things you do, "just because", as other ways are no better. I don't see any reason why the kid couldn't bring his own instrument in CC. However, if he hasn't yet learned to play it (I don't think he owns one...Isn't he trying to get SOMEONE ELSE [the school] to buy one for him to use?), the band will suffer for awhile. Perhaps the bandmaster knows this, and perhaps the bandmaster doesn't like the idea of retraining Ju-Co tuba players to play CC tubas year-after-year-after-year until his own retirement.



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