Fred / Alan E - Thanks for Worldcat lead (below). Has a bit of a learning curve but it located the book 4 miles from me instead of 17 with $ parking. With regard to the refined abilities of musicians, I didn't mean to imply an exclusivity to wind players. It's just a bigot's reluctance to relinquish a basis for so many fine jokes about conductors and violists, whatever the reality. David Skolnik Hastings on Hudson, NY At 04:23 PM 11/11/2009, you wrote: >On Nov 10, 2009, at 5:06 PM, David Skolnik wrote: >This is not a book to read straight through, at least not for most >of us. More a book to dip into, look at a bit of one section, a bit >of another, maybe go back and try to clarify something. >If you want to find a book like this in a library, worldcat.org is >the place to look. It has listings of library collections from an >amazing number of libraries, I think something like 70,000, >including nearly all university libraries. You can put in your >location, and it will list libraries that have the book sorted by >distance from you. There are many copies in Manhattan, including >Columbia U and NY Public Library. >Interlibrary loan is one of my favorite perks of the job. We can >access worldcat through our library portal, and things show up in a >different format, including a link to request the item on >interlibrary loan. Click on it, and you go automatically to the ILL >request page, with a request already filled in with the data. Click >submit, and wait a week or two for it to show up. Amazing! > >Regards, >Fred Sturm >University of New Mexico ><mailto:fssturm at unm.edu>fssturm at unm.edu >Here, here. There is a conductor on the faculty here at CalArts >who, among his many talents, is also a fine vocalist. He is a >stickler for 440. Once he was a bit tardy in his piano >request. The instrument he wanted was very close to being in tune >with itself, but at 440.5 (so I didn't mess with the pitch, just >touched it up where it was). Guess what? Without my mentioning it >to him--and without the aid of any electronic measuring device--he >knew not only that it wasn't at 440 but exactly where is was. I >marveled at this feat and asked him how he did it. The answer? He >can tell by how it falls in his vocal chords. This individual is a >personal friend, and I know him to be a no-B. S. guy. Wow. > >Alan Eder -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091112/8c51c5d4/attachment.htm>
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