Gene Pokorny Tuba Clinic - 2005

This is from one of the great Army Band Tuba-Euphonium Conferences in Washington, D.C.

[@lvtuba]

This guardian angel discussion is the most important thing professionals need to hear.

[@lotsabirds]

Finally, this video is great for all musicians. Great things to think about and take to heart!

[@rickdynes]

11:00 These ideas are absolutely related to recent Tenures in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Jobs Secured and Not Secured)

[@lotsabirds]

When he talked about tuning, fifths, thirds, octaves etc. It reminded me of my piano tuning days. I used to go in for people who did not like the previous tuning when the tuner used an electronic device to tune the strings. I actually had to "untune" the piano so that a pitch E, for example worked as the root in E major, the 5th in A minor, the 3rd in C major, etc. Electronic tuning doesn't take the variations of pitch needed for a note to sound proper in each key. For some reason the toughest notes to make work were the Ds. Tuning a piano is making every key sound correctly when played in any key. Not really even tempered...thats why Bach called it Well tempered. There is a difference between the two.

[@rickdynes]

Can you Really make a piano Well Tempered in Each Key Simultaneously?? Isn't it Always an Artistic, Contextual, Aesthetic Choice/Notion with Consciously Built-in Compromises??

[@rickdynes]

F A S C I N A T I N G ! ! ! ! !

[@rogerbobo1350]

Depressing!

[@lotsabirds]

I gotta figure this out ! LOL! I am 65 and learning to play a tenor/alto horn . I am improving ! So...mathematically I must be improving at a faster rate than I am declining as far as horn playing. That's a good thing. Now...If I get this right, I need to improve at a faster rate than I decline. If I can guage this in such a way that my improvement vs. my declination breaks even when I'm 120 years old, I can begin to decline until I'm 150 then ultimately return to my pre horn days. I'll call this my tortoise strategy to playing the horn! 😀