> "I'm not adverse to having somebody from the Mueller team come and tell the committee what they did and how they did it, as a matter of fact I think that's a really good idea. I'm not so sure Mr. Mueller would be the best person now," Graham said.

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There's a special place in hell for people who use adverse where averse is warranted.

@Robusto thank you. That's more than I can ask of anyone. If you need a MIDI with the flute part muted, I can do that at a press of a button.

Now. A more pressing question.

How hard is A flat major on the flute.

I don't know half the fingerings.

@RegDwigнt Not hard at all.

Frankly I basically play everything in D major.

@Robusto well that's good news then.

I'm asking because just now someone left a comment on my ex's waltz asking if I can do a flute arrangement.

There aren't any scales or arpeggios that are particularly difficult, only certain implementations of them that can be awkward.

I am thinking of going with the original tonality. That'd be D minor modulating to F minor.

Actually, hang on a sec, lemme show you.

musescore.com/user/27897310/scores/6249536/s/J3UCta

That's a private link. I hope it works.

Yes, it does.

I have a couple of notes for you. For one, I would want to play it with more rubato than the MIDI allows at this point.

Well the MIDI allows fuck all. Just listen how half the notes have a different default volume from the rest. And not in any kind of logical way.

And make no mistake, I don't think I'm a fan of the idea in general. I'm just trying to give people whatever they ask for. Forge the iron while it's hot, or whatever that saying is.

For another, where you have those 3-8th-note pickups you might try putting a grace note on the middle one (which would be the 3rd beat of the measure) to make it more flutelike. It would also move the piece forward more than repeated notes would.

The original piano piece is very closely scored. For the violin I can maintain that, only adjusting by a third to accomodate its ambitus.

For the flute that doesn't really work. It's sitting an octave higher. So the two planes of tone are very far apart. It's rather disjoint.

Ideally you'd fill that out with some strings and maybe a clarinet. Make it more cohesive.

But hey that's not what they're asking for.

@Robusto that's a very interesting point. I wouldn't have thought of that.

Spent a full seven minutes trying to get MuseScore to play one grace note properly. Ugh. Business as usual.

The lengths you have to go to. Jesus.

So anyway. I've updated the score. And then two minutes later the whole site went down by the looks of it.

I've killed MuseScore.

@RegDwigнt Now look what you've done.

@Mitch Just which guy?

@Robusto Oh, OK. I thought it was some thing like the front tire of the guy in back just pops up (and the front guy's back tire might skid a tiny bit).

@Robusto Graham.

@RegDwigнt OK, good start, but can't you slur the grace notes?

@Mitch As in Lindsey?

I mean, they should really make reservations for.a whole bunch, each with their own special table, all crowded around the restaurant's bathroom next to the kitchen, except the bathroom is really a truck stop bathroom. But also it's locked.

Ah, OK. I get it now.

@Robusto Exactly. That guy.

Well, there's worse.

But really, that's saying very little nowadays.

Worse than Graham?

@M.A.R. Yeah, that sounds intuitively right, and like Rob said, the back tire of the front guy is way more stable.

@Robusto Well yeah.

Name one that is better.

Maybe Romney?

thinks hard

They can tie for worst.

still thinking

Well, Trump is the absolute worst. We're talking Ninth Circle bad. But his enablers must be arrayed around him on that level.