Last night I had the strangest dream...

[fleetfootmike]

...as the song goes.

Not often I get dreams I remember, but this was vivid, and just plain SILLY. Musical wierdness behind the cut tag.


I turned up for a Peterborough Gilbert and Sullivan Society performance, to play in the pit band. On French Horn, an instrument about which I know precisely zip. There was another French Horn player, whom I didn't know.

I look at the music, to discover that I'm only playing on three songs, one at the beginning and two near the end. The part consists, in all three cases, of one note (an Eb), with various quaver/eigth note rhythms, all except for the last part, which has an extra C right at the end. Great. Except I don't know which keys to hold down to produce an Eb, so the first cue consists of a bunch of awful wrong notes. Which, bizarrely, no-one seems to mind.

Between the first and second cues, I dismantled the French Horn, once again for no obvious reason. Unfortunately, I couldn't reassemble it in time for the second cue, and again, no-one minded.

With the aid of a second French Horn as an example, I manage to put it back together, in time to remember to ask the other horn player which keys to hold down to get an Eb. I even test this, loudly, during a piece I'm not playing on, BEFORE the cue, and again no-one complains. And I get the last cue right... all bar, you guessed it, the C at the end.

Comments

[vaurien.livejournal.com]

Ahh well, you probably just want the second valve... unless it's at the bottom then you may want the third too since the harmonic's missing. Come to think of it and if the brighter sound isn't a problem, why not go for the Bb side using the thumb lever and then hit the 1st valve.

C is easy, it's all open... probably.

Hope it helps. {:c)

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

Hats off to the comic precision of your somnolent weirdness! =:o}

Analysis

[shannachie.livejournal.com]

I wonder what your subconscious wanted to tell you with that dream. That you wished to learn a neaw instrument. That you should not dismantle things you know nothing about? Or something nicely Freudian? The choice of "French horn" rather than piano accordeon could suggest that...