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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 09:16:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Winslow Yerxa
Subject: [none]

I wrote something correct but off-point about position
naming.

Chris Stovall Brown wrote:

>Chromatic with the button pushed in.
>The song is in C and Walter is playing
>in what is called, once again in the
>"approved name/circle of fifths nomenclature",
>6th position.

And I replied:

>No, it's not. Db is 8th position - count it up:
>
>C-G-D-A-E-B-F#/Gb-Db.
>

While this is correct, it's beside the point. In fact
Walter was playing in C on a C instrument. So it was
in fact first position. The fact that he had the slide
pressed in and was following the pathway of C as the
7th mode of Db makes no difference. The instrument was
in C, and the key was C, so it was first position.

However, when I wrote:

>However, it's intriguing nonetheless.
>If you lock the button in, 8th plays
>just like 6th plays if you leave
>the button alone.

That was flat-out wrong. Db plays nothing like B under
any circumstance on a solo-tuned C instrument.

Sorry. It's early and I have a cold.

Winslow

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