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Re: Baritones rule!!!!!

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Subject: Re: Baritones rule!!!!!
From: "Mark Tarry" <markymark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 23:37:17 +0100
Cc: "Bethan Mair Jenkins" <trin0445@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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I want to know what is wrong with WELSH baritone players??
I am WELSH ( originally from Wrexham) AND I play Baritone .Mind - I
wouldn't exectly say I'm the sanest of people around!!

If anyone else would like to comment then please do !!


Natalie Purdie (NOT Mark Tarry!!)
Solo Bari Nottingham City Transport Band


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> From: Alastair Wheeler <alastair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Brass-Band mailing list <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bethan Mair Jenkins <trin0445@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Baritones rule!!!!!
> Date: 29 April 1998 13:58
> 
> 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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