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Brass in school, and when the children leave!

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Subject: Brass in school, and when the children leave!
From: "Colin Johnson" <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 22:48:26 +0100
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A first message from a new address:
  This is possibly a topic that has been debated before, but it is a new
medium for me. When I was at school, a couple of years ago!, the area where
I lived had a half-decent wind-band. But what was one of the problems was
that the children were discouraged from playing with the local brass-bands,
so consequently, when they left school, they had no musical contacts out of
the schools. So as a result, they packed in playing. A couple of the girls
were tidy players, and could hold a seat at any of the local bands, and
possibly gone on to bigger things. Does this have a familiar sound across
the country? or is/was my region a one off? Has anybody done any sort of a
study into the number of kids who play in school bands, and what they go on
to do when leaving, and how many continue playing.
Also, please forgive my possible ignorance, but cornet players, trombonists,
horn players, euphoniumists? etc can continue to play in a brass-band, of
which there are hundreds and hundreds of, but where can a clarinet player,
or a flautist, or any other woodwind instrumentalist continue their hobby
twice a week?
An interisting debate could ensue!

				     Colin Johnson


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