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RE: Where do I start? ( an introductory message..)

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Subject: RE: Where do I start? ( an introductory message..)
From: "Ian W. Wright" <Ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 00:12:53 +0000
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> In message <2673640b.35a21d33@xxxxxxx>,
> KenBaddley@xxxxxxx writes > >Finally, do brass bands
> accept *mature* absolute beginners, ( I need to learn
> >from scratch, really..... ) and would I be able to find
> a band within striking >distance of Colchester, when I
> move there in the near future?
> 
Shame you don't live nearer to us - we'd welcome you with open arms. 
I didn't start playing until I was in my 30s and then it was a 
surprise to me. I had always wanted to play brass but, after a 
conspicuously unsuccessful trial period at school after which the 
trombone I had been given was forcibly removed from me, I had really 
given up. However, I had started to take my lad to a local band where 
he was playing cornet 'to help ease his asthma' and used to sit at 
one side of the band room listening as it was quite a way from home. 
One week the musical director came over and said "Don't you play?", 
"no, says I, I once tried but had to give up"; "But you can read 
music can't you "; "Yes"; "Right then - we'll see".
The next week a baritone was thrust into my hands and I was escorted 
to a small damp room downstairs and instructed on how to play a C 
scale - this took about 3 sessions before I could get it right every 
time, then I was given about 45 minutes tuition a week and was sat in 
the band for the rest of the time, playing odd notes here and there 
whenever my reading and hand co-ordination happened to coincide with 
their playing - usually on repeated phrases and I was one phrase 
behind!
I'm still struggling 15 or 16 years later but now I do it from the 
top Euphonium chair!

Best of luck - just go for it.

Ian
Ian W. Wright
Bandmaster and Euphonium player of the Hathersage Silver Band, Derbyshire, England
see our web page at:- www.geocities.com/hollywood/6067/home.html


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