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National Finals

To: "Steve Larwood" <larwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: National Finals
From: "David Williams" <JDW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 11:19:20 +0100
Cc: <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Priority: low
Reply-to: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi Steve.  Just wondering if you had heard that the N.B.B.A. has decided
that the National Finals at the Albert Hall, will take on a new-look this
year, and that all section test-pieces will contain movements requiring
strings, woodwind, a piano accordion, harmonica and that percussionists will
only be allowed a bass drum.   In the top section there will be a passage
requiring the solo euph to play an Ophicleide !  How on earth is a band
going to obtain one of these instruments ?   And in the fourth section
contest all bands will have to have a Hosaphone and the test piece will
contain top C sharps for third and second cornets.   Surely this is going
too far.   Could it lead to the end of the brass band movement as we know it
?    I envisage a big protest.   Hope you are keeping well and succeeded in
making the instrument like Sam Hughes used to play.   Cheers.   Dave.


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