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Re: Baritones rule!!!!!

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Subject: Re: Baritones rule!!!!!
From: Alastair Wheeler <alastair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:58:23 +0100 (BST)
Cc: Bethan Mair Jenkins <trin0445@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <Pine.OSF.3.95.980429104437.22740A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk>
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On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Bethan Jenkins wrote:

     If this didn't bounce, meet Bethan.  Sorry.  Mind you, the girl in
the Boddingtons adverts plays the Baritone, apparently.


> How true is all of this????   Baritones seem to be used as general
> butt-of-band-joke type arrangements, despite the fact that they are in
> fact _essential_ to the running of the band.  Things that worry us - Bass
> trombonists commenting "We can do without a 2nd horn or a 2nd bari but not
> both" with obvious relish, after music has to be re-scored 'cause of an
> ill 2nd horn.  It isn't just in my band (City of Oxford) where baritones
> are seen as funny (quite apart from _Welsh_ baritones!!) - it happens at
> other bands of whom I know.  Baritone solos are laughed at everywhere!!
> Lydmet Lydney band I know of - taking the mick out of their previous bari
> _on_stage_!!!  And in my home band, Aberystwyth Silver, the same
> discrimination applies!!  Quote from a trombonist friend of mine in
> Cambridge, after excluding baritone players from his idea of 'foxy ladies'
> (sic), and me complaining - "You don't get it do you?  Baritone.  If
> Alicia Silverstone played baritone, I'd rip her poster off the wall this
> minute."  Guys, is the bari _really_ that unsexy an instrument to play??
> Ok, it definitely comes after the flugelhorn (shut up, Alastair!), but
> surely it's a lot more attractive than a tuba, say.  Although maybe that
> isn't saying that much....!!!  JOKE!!!!
> Baritones are human too!!!!
> 
> Beth Jenkins (City of Oxford Silver Band)

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  Alastair Wheeler
  Euphonium & Trombone			    Fundamental Brass
  Bass Trombone			   City of Oxford Brass Band
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  "I am following my fish"


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