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Re: Registration

andy wooler wrote:
> 
> Don Cooper wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> This argument is one that often comes up. I'd like to know where all the
> money is coming from because in our neck of the woods, there isn't any in
> brass band ing!
> Secondly, and I speak as a conductor here, I would be less than happy about
> preparing a band for a contest and not seeing many of the players until the
> final rehearsal because lets face it, if this view of the future is
> correct, these people are going to want paying for rehearsals as well! It
> is my belief that the movement would be self-policing in this respect.
> 
> >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.
> If day transfers are extended to the top section, which does happen in some
> associations, then effectively, it's a free for all for bands at the top
> already.
> What real advantage do we get from knowing who these people are and where
> they're from?
> 
> >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.
> 
> We've already seen this one before - in the South, a number of years ago, a
> new band formed using the "cream" of players from the other bands in the
> area. They didn't need money to do this, the players simply wanted to be in
> a more successful band. The registration system didn't protect any of the
> bands who lost players to the new outfit - in fact one band lost so many,
> it was unable to contest for a number of years. What happened to this new
> band? Well, they made it to the top locally as you'd expect. But with no
> tradition and a transient membership, they had no hope of staying together
> and didn't!
> 
> I appreciate some people will get bored with this subject quite quickly -
> If you have anything to say on the subject of Registration but don't want
> to clutter up the list, mail me privately (awooler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx). All
> opinions are respected even when I disagree with them! - any input from
> overseas list members would be especially welcome - does this all seem
> familiar to you or are you sat there thinking "what the devil is this chap
> on about, we don't do that here!"
> 
> I'm a great believer in open debate on matters such as this - how else can
> we ever expect the movement to move into 21st Century
> 
> Andy Wooler, Conductor, Uckfield Concert Brass, PRO SCABA
> MD "The Classic Dance Band", Trumpet "Sussex Symphony Orchestra"
> awooler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (home),
> andy.wooler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (work)
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/awooler
> 
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That wouldn't be the Birmingham School of Music/Jones and
Crossland/Hyundai/PMG Heart of England Band would it?????

Adrian J. Raven


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