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RE: Test Piece

To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Test Piece
From: "Grice, Paul PF" <Grice.Paul.PF@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:21:53 +1100
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Mate,
	You haven't seen our judges!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paul Grice
Flugel
Waratah

> ----------
> From: Andrew W Blackwood[SMTP:blac0092@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, 14 November 1997 2:30
> To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Test Piece
> 
> On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 Steven_Harlow@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> <-snip->
> 
> > I'd like to get some interest from any Aussies on the list. What are
> > everyone's thoughts on the Band Association's idea of eliminating
> the
> > "Test" piece from next years State Championships.
> 
> <-snip->
> 
> I'm not familiar with the Australian contest scene as such, although
> when
> I was in southeast Asia a while back, some of the locals would address
> me
> as "mate," so I must look Australian. :) Anyway, it seems to me that
> the
> purpose of a test piece is to make life easier for the judges.  In
> England, where they have eighteen or so bands competing for the top
> prize,
> the only way that the judges can reasonably come up with any ranking
> is by
> having all of the bands play a common piece.  In North America, we
> have
> three to six bands playing in any given division, so a test piece
> probably
> isn't essential to help the judges with their ranking, but there is a
> test
> piece anyway.  It seems to me that there were four bands in the most
> recent Australian contest.  With so few bands, I don't think that
> having
> that common piece is absolutely necessary for the judges to make the
> proper judgment.  I think the results at this year's North American
> championships would have been the same no matter what each band
> played.  
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andy Blackwood
> Utility Tuba
> Sheldon Theatre Brass Band
> Red Wing MN USA
> 
> 
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