<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello List, Stan et al</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stan, you said: "<STRONG><FONT = face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800000 size=3>"noodling" is that semi-irritating habit that = (mostly) string and woodwind players have of playing relatively soft nothings = while warming up"</FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800000>It's also what = the clarinets and the French horns do (or try to do) in the pit while = I'm trying to tune a Harpsichord or the pit piano. Then it's not = "semi-irritating" its totally, completely, mind-bogglingly berserk-rendingly plain old = irritating. So I send them out of the pit. The other irritating thing is the = on-stage vacuum cleaner noodler. That's convemiently tuned to D#=437. So I send that = off too. Aren't I a one?</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800000>Regards and = noodles for aye</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800000>Michael G (UK)</FONT></STRONG> </DIV></BODY></HTML>