QUOTE(pikkoloflautist @ Dec 17 2007, 07:10 PM)

For our xmas production, which finished last week, we had a full (25 people) orchestra, with flutes, clarinets, sax, trumpets, trombones, tenor horn, french horn, violins, double bass, and drum kit. I was sitting next to the sax player, and realized she was reading bass clef music.
I asked her what this was about and she said: "There's no Eb part. So I'm reading the bassoon part as though it's in treble clef and adding 3 sharps!"
What I found truly hilarious was that the tenor horn player had spent an entire weekend transposing all 100 pages of the score on Sibelius!
I have to do the opposite when playing the bassoon along with my brother on the alto sax - play as if it's in bass clef, taking off 3 sharps (or adding 3 flats, or whatever). Just can't be bothered to transpose properly. But I play clarinet at church for the hymns, with a piano, another clarinet and a cornet (also Bb). Transposing major 2nds is actually quite easy. (Lots of practice, I suppose, and the pianist is crazy and plays everything stupidly fast.) My flautist friend (who's about the same standard as me) can't do it, though!