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Thailand / instrumentation

Hi all,
Have just finished a 2 week tour of Thailand as MD
of The Melbourne Transit Band. We had a ball.
Rehearsed nearly every day and the band played
beautifully. Our major functions were to play for
the opening of the Hellfire Pass Museum, play at
the Anzac Day Dawn Service and 11am morning
service. We did some other small jobs as well.

Have read all your comments re instrumentation
etc. and offer this thought:
For years now i have been advocating using other
instruments for variety of sound. These past 2
years with Tasmanias Jubilee Brass we used 4
t'bones, 4 t'horns with 2 doubling french horn on
selected items. The f ' horns added a new sound
dimension and power when required. (FYI, F'horns
have a much bigger range than t'horn)

Like Adrian, i too see a use for trumpets ( Brass
Band of Battle Creek is a fantastic example) and
the idea of 2 flugels is a beauty.

The Melb. Transit Band took 5 saxes and guitar
with them for the dance jobs we did. The flugel
player doubles elec. bass. Four of the cornets
played trumpet. (and rightly so) When we did BB
programs we used the saxes in the band, against
the better wishes of the purists, but they
softened their attitude when they experienced the
extra colour and edge. It also afforded us a
couple of great soloists when we opened up the
*jazz* numbers.

One of the percussionists is a very competent
flute/picc player and proved very handy and
appropriate for the closing section of Colonel
Bogey On Parade. (the whistling bit.)

The public response to all this was fabulous. As a
unit we were much more flexible with programming
and for those who had not the chance of working
alongside saxes it was enlightening.

Point is this. DON'T LIMIT YOUR PUBLIC
AVAILABILITY AND APPEAL BY A LIMITING/
CONSTRAINING SET OF RULES.

It's good to be back home, and i look forward to
more of your writings.

BTW, some of us managed to get together and have a
drink at the Nationals, Monkey. Just takes a
little initiative and 'want to'.

Norm
--
Music is my first love, after Jan and the billies.


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