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Re: Vibrato

 ADRIAN DROVER WROTE
>My son is only 15, but already has a collection of instruments
>which he has found necessary for his musical education. These include
>trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn in Bb, trumpet and cornet in Eb. I believe
>it is important for him to have an un-blinkered view of the music world.
>He plays in orchestras, wind bands, brass bands, big bands and percussion
>bands, and already shows signs of being a very versatile musician. He
>plays everything from classical through jazz and pop, and loves it all.
>Brass bands in my area continually recruit college musicians who have been
>trained as trumpeters.
I COULD NOT AGREE MORE

>I have directed some of my radio recording sessions with my own orchestras
>and big band from the BBC studios in Manchester. Alan Morrison was
>included on some of these sessions playing TRUMPET. It was a pleasure for
>me to have the talents of this gifted man on these gigs. Alan is also one
>of the few musicians who have made the hair stand up on the back of my
>neck when soloing on CORNET! 

I THINK ALAN MORRISONS STYLE OF PLAYING IS THE 
ROLE MODEL FOR YOUNG CORNET PLAYERS AND HIS CLEAR 
SOUND AND GUESS HOW HE STARTED?? ON TRUMPET
IN A BIG BAND, NOW ALL YOU OLD STICK IN THE MUD BRASS
BANDS PERSONS. 
Q   WHO WAS PRINCIPAL CORNET IN GRIMETHORPES HAY DAY
      UNDER FRANK RENTON WHEN THEY WERE WINNING EVERYTHING??
 A  ALAN MORRISON
   TRUMPET PLAYING DIDNT HARM  HIM TOO MUCH!!!
   TRY SOME OF HIS CORNET SOLOS GOOD STYLE
    I,VE PLAYED MANY OF THEM.

A REPLY TO TROND OTTO BERG & J HUGHES
Why do we, the traditionalists, accept this interferece.  What would have
happen
> if we had come to a wind band/symphony orcestra with our brilliant Eb-
tenorhorn
> palyers, our exelent Sopranos .........  Would the "winders" accept it like
we
> accept the trumpetsound of our trumpetplayers?  Definetly NOT.

ORCHESTRAS I'M SURE WOULD WELCOME BRASS BAND PLAYERS
WHO WANT TO IMPROVE THEMSELVES AND GAIN DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE.
 I PLAY IN A SEMI PRO ORCHESTRA  AND THE BRASS SECTION DO OR
HAVE PLAYED IN BRASS BAND AT A HIGH STANDARD INCLUDING SOME OF
THE FRENCH HORN PLAYERS.DONT FORGET CORNETS ARE USED QUITE
FREQUENTLY IN ORCHESTRAS FOR TONE COLOURS.
EARLIER THIS YEAR I WAS ASKED TO PEFORM A SOLO WITH AN
ORCHESTRA ON FLUGEL HORN,HARDLY EVER USED IN THIS FIELD.
BUT THE COMPOSER WANTED THIS TONE COLOUR SO WHY NOT
BUT IF I SUGGESTED USING A TRUMPET IN A BRASS BAND IF THE COMPOSER WANTED THAT
STYLE AND SOUND IMAGINE THE UPROAR!!!!
AFTER ALL WHATEVER WE PLAY AND WHATEVER STYLE, WE ARE
ALL HERE TO PRODUCE MUSIC.
ALSO MR OTTO BERG  THIS IS NOT AN INTERFERNCE IT IS ADVICE FOR YOUNGER PLAYERS
TO TRY OTHER FORMS OF PLAYING TO HELP
IMPROVE THEIR MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE .
BY THE WAY THIS IS THE MODERN AGE NOT 150 YEARS AGO
& IF BRASS BANDS WANT TO SURVIVE THEY HAVE TO PLAY
STYLES OF TODAY AS WELL AS TRADITION  OTHERWISE WHEN ALL
THE TRADITIONALISTS HAVE GONE WE WONT HAVE ATTRACTED ANY
YOUNG PEOPLE TO KEEP THE MOVEMENT ALIVE PLAYING WISE &
AUDIENCE WISE.

NEAL
TRUMPET/CORNET/VERY OCCASIONAL DRUMMER!!!
BRASS BAND/BIG BAND/ORCHESRAL/SALSA/JAZZ/TAO


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