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Message: <blockquote data-quote="turf3" data-source="post: 643932" data-attributes="member: 8105"><p>I was bound and determined to move the bari sax parts in one big band to bass.  With something like 250 charts in the book, I wasn't going to transcribe them all, but I was working on getting the transposition under my fingers, when COVID hit, I had to move cross country, the big band folded, etc., etc., etc., and the bass sax has only been out of its case for trad jazz gigs (and REAL intermittently at that) since.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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