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In article ,
Stephen McElroy wrote:

My Stokie story is from the American Symphony: the celeste was
under-pitch, earning the keyboardist Stokie's glare. Once more, in tune!
The celeste's pitch is fixed and can't be adjusted quickly. The player's
solution was to raise a shoulder as he played, 'raising' the pitch.

Stephen

lol This reminds me of an encounter with a well-known conductor back in
the days when I was gigging as a trombonist more than I am today. The
conductor had quite a jazz background as well as classical (he's
American/British; you can probably guess who this is!) We were playing
a "pops" concert at the Hollywood Bowl, and I had a little solo on a
ballad. He's stopped and asked for more vibrato from me. I increased
my lip/diaphram vibrato. He asked for more. I gave him more; a bigger
vibrato than is normally used in any style. He said, "No, I want more,
you know..." and made a hand motion like a jazz style slide vibrato. I
did a slide vibrato. "Perfect!" he said. The truth is that my slide
vibrato was exactly like my lip vibrato was originally! But now he
could SEE it happening. It was a big joke in the brass section for
months!