Sometimes some idiot puts a Steinway on stage when I have an engagement.
Which I refuse to play. They haven’t made a decent piano since the early 70’s.
If they don’t replace it with the appropriate Baldwin SD-10 I will, (and have), cancelled.
Let this girl use her own violin. I’m sure a real conductor wouldn’t care, only the untalented hack who couldn’t cut it as a performer and has to work for the public school system.
Herbert von Karajan and Georg Solti spin in their graves.
do all brass players have to use brass coloured instruments, or are chromed ones ok?
do they have to use trumpets or are coronets ok?
tubas or sousaphones?
ridiculous. there’s probably plenty of colour variation in the school provided ones anyway.
I played Euphonium, i used my dad’s pro quality Conn, in high school marching band, my band director made me use the school’s Besson (still a great horn) just so we all matched. Concert band, pep and everything else I could use my Conn.
Amen...I could have been stuck playing some AWFUL instruments over the years. I have always brought my own keyboard, even if I am assured the place “has a piano”. And when I do a recital for the kids, each brings his or her own guitar. They get lined up on the stage in the order of performance.
In a REAL orchestra, everybody owns their own instrument. So they are NOT going to all look the same.