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Re: Registration

To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Registration
From: Don Cooper <cardpc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 00:57:31 +0100
Organization: Paterson Institute
Priority: low
References: <md5:BA94C8E158A5D987658363051E4371F3>
Reply-to: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> Many associations now have day transfers - I fail to see a difference
> between having day transfers and having no system at all - both allow a
> player to appear at different contests with different bands.

In my experience, day transfers are limited to one or two borrowed
players from a band of the same or lower section and this works because
we DO have a registration scheme and we know who is being borrowed from
where.  Brass bands are about a committed group of individuals who want
to work together to make music and they like to compare themselves
against similar groups of individuals in contests.  It would only take
one band to buy success by "borrowing" (=paying?) a handfull of top
class players for the Area or the Nationals before everyone else tried
the same trick.  If registration were abandoned altogether I can imagine
a group of semi-professionals developing who would hire themselves out
to the highest bidder for contesting.

Maybe the National Registration scheme isn't perfect, but IMHO it's
there for a good reason and we should think long and hard before we
abandon it.

Don Cooper
Glossop Old Band
cardpc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.GlossopBand.demon.co.uk


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