Lillie Harris invited me to post this quirk here. “Player cannot play 1 instruments simultaneously”. Attached is the offending file, too. It’s due to be performed at the end of the year, BTW.
train-sets-cb.dorico (2.0 MB)
That could refer to some players I’ve heard…
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Could this refer to the coordination of the right and left arm?
Oh, dear. There must be an incompetent player in the mix. Is it possible that the “player” in setup is assigned an instrument not typically associated with that type of “player.” For example, is a piano player assigned to play timpani or tuba or glass harmonica or some such thing?
Thanks for reporting this, David. We’ll take a look and find out what’s throwing things off.
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This makes me think about an interview my organ professor, Dr. Yves Senden, conducted in 1994 with Jean Ferrard, a renowned Belgian organist and radio host on RTBF. He said:
Même pour jouer très mal de l’orgue il faut déjà beaucoup travailler.
I can personally witness the truth of this statement, as far as I am concerned 
. But then, I find consolation in a citation from JS Bach who answered to the question whether organ playing is difficult:
Orgel spielen ist ganz einfach. Alles, was man tun muss, ist, die richtige Taste zum richtigen Zeitpunkt zu treffen, und das Instrument spielt von ganz allein.
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