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Re: Baritones rule!!!!!

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Subject: Re: Baritones rule!!!!!
From: "Steven Booth" <sbooth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 12:26:20 +0100
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That's true - I used to conduct & play in the same band as Melanie Sykes
(the Boddington's girl). I even dated her sister !!!
SB
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Alastair Wheeler <alastair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  To: Brass-Band mailing list <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  Cc: Bethan Mair Jenkins <trin0445@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  Date: 29 April 1998 22:24
>  Subject: Re: Baritones rule!!!!!
>
>
>  >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'
>


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