[TPIN] Picollo purchase question

[Michael Anderson]

My university is fortunate to own several high quality C's, Eb/D's, piccs,
flugels and rotary trumpets. So, our students are able to learn on quality
instruments when they need to, not when they can afford to.

MA

> From: Tim Swensen <kanstulpicc-tpin at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: <kanstulpicc-tpin at yahoo.com>
> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:44:22 -0700 (PDT)
> To: <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [TPIN] Picollo purchase question
> 
>  
>   I'll disagree with John here.  When I was in college as an engineering
>   student, the only horn I owned was a B-flat Bach Strad.  The college
>   had a Strad C, a Bach flugel, and a short-bell Schilke D/E-flat.
>   I played all of those horns.  If the college didn't have them I wouldn't
>   have played them.  There was more than once when I really wished
>   I had a picc.  I was playing a fair amount, and did Messiah with
>   the other college orchestra in the adjacent city, so I was used to
>   playing the D.  I performed the Haydn on the E-flat.  I was ready to
>   try a picc, but didn't have the cash and the school didn't have the picc,
>   so I never got to.
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