Another church gig, I sat down behind the MIDI piano and our choir started the piece A Capella.

When it came time for the band to come in, I suddenly discovered that the last player of the piano was one of those "one key" players who used the MIDI Transpose to play in one key, likely C, while the notes come out in another. They got up and left the Piano like that, one would think that if they changed such a parameter that they would have the courtesy to remember to CHANGE IT BACK, so that Middle C was Middle C again.

Whoa.

Quick transpose and a good ear on my part saved the day, We were supposed to be in Eb but I ended up playing the song in Db fingering -- but those first three notes I played were in an entirely different key and the whole thing took me quite by surprise to say the least. What the... ??? That was funny. The funniest thing was Tony, the bass player, he gave me a look like you wouldn't believe when I made that bad entrance like that...


--Mac

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