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Got this from Carol Critelli today, and HAVE to share! Enjoy!<br>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;
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Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><i>A Guide to
the Amateur Orchestra’s Seating Arrangements</i></b></span></div>
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Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">by Harold
Schnitzenhauer, conductor of the Noogal-Retsnom Symphony</span></div>
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16px/normal 'Marker Felt'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The
brass must ALWAYS be nearest to the exit and first to the bar,
or there will be trouble!</span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;
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16px/normal 'Marker Felt'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">One
general principle of orchestral layouts: the louder it can play,
the farther back it goes.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;
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16px/normal 'Marker Felt'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">...Woodwinds
are generally tucked toward the middle.</span></div>
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16px/normal 'Marker Felt'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">This
isn't an acoustical concern, however. They tend to</span></div>
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too easily if not surrounded</span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;
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16px/normal 'Marker Felt'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The
reasons for boxing in the violas between the basses, trumpets
and woodwinds is that they tend to forget why they're there and
wander off otherwise.</span></div>
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style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;
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16px/normal 'Marker Felt'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">There
is a story of the viola player who replaces the conductor when
he falls ill. He manages to make a great job of it and conducts
the orchestra for two weeks until the conductor is better. When
he sits back in the section next day the guy next to him says,
"So, where have you been for the last two weeks?"</span></div>
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Felt'; min-height: 17px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;
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16px/normal 'Marker Felt'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> By
the mid-20th century it had become accepted for the winds to be
arranged by sections directly in front of the conductor. This
seating is by now almost universally accepted, except by amateur
orchestras which generally seat players by the order of arrival
for the rehearsal.</span></div>
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Jacquie<br>
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