Re: volta repeat with and without alternative ending

[Flaming Hakama by Elaine]

> Conductor will say bar number.
Nope. From my experience I would say she says everytime something different:
- from 3 measures before rehearsal mark B
- from the lyric measure
- second repeat, please
- proabaly from a specific bar number
Regards
Helge

Your point?  So, some of the time, conductors will refer to landmarks that everyone has on their part.  Great.

But what about the other times, when she decides to give an indication relative to the first or second ending?  

The instrumentalists whose parts don't have the endings will be confused.

Likewise, you still have to reconcile that either some parts will have missing or duplicate measure numbers.  So you will incur problems any time someone says count "X measures before/after Y", and that count happens to straddle this purposefully-mishandled repeat. 

You will waste everyone's time.  That is annoying, and totally preventable.  Please don't be THAT person.

Your imaginary "rule" that says that multiple endings must contain different content is what is silly, and in the end, causes confusion and is therefore very inconsiderate.

Regards,

David Elaine Alt

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