>
> For example, if you have your instruments tuned to a C scale, it can
> sound quite dischordant (especially to the trained ear) or not "sweet"
> if a piece is played on instruments with fixed tuning in another key. eg
> an F in the C scale is not the same frequency as the F in the Bb scale,
> so an F played on a Bb bassoon will be off compared with a piano F
> Joe
>

Another Joe wrote:

"When a baritone saxophone player has to transpose sheet music from cello,
he (few women are drawn to the instrument) merely pretends that the music
is written in treble clef rather than bass, eyeballs it up an octave, and
then plays without the octave key pressed down. It's so simple a child
could do it, if a child wanted to play such a huge, ungainly instrument. As
his eye dances along the little fenceposts of notes, his fingers
automatically perform a one-to-one transformation that is the theoretical
equivalent of adding and subtracting octaves, fifths, and thirds, but all
of the actual mental work is done when he looks up in the top right corner
of the first page and says, "Aw hell. Cello again." Cello parts aren't that
interesting to saxophonists."
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