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I want to know what is wrong with WELSH baritone players?? I am WELSH ( originally from Wrexham) AND I play Baritone .Mind - I wouldn't exectly say I'm the sanest of people around!! If anyone else would like to comment then please do !! Natalie Purdie (NOT Mark Tarry!!) Solo Bari Nottingham City Transport Band ---------- > From: Alastair Wheeler <alastair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: Brass-Band mailing list <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Bethan Mair Jenkins <trin0445@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Baritones rule!!!!! > Date: 29 April 1998 13:58 > > 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' > > (sic), and me complaining - "You don't get it do you? Baritone. If > > Alicia Silverstone played baritone, I'd rip her poster off the wall this > > minute." Guys, is the bari _really_ that unsexy an instrument to play?? > > Ok, it definitely comes after the flugelhorn (shut up, Alastair!), but > > surely it's a lot more attractive than a tuba, say. Although maybe that > > isn't saying that much....!!! JOKE!!!! > > Baritones are human too!!!! > > > > Beth Jenkins (City of Oxford Silver Band) > > -- > Alastair Wheeler > Euphonium & Trombone Fundamental Brass > Bass Trombone City of Oxford Brass Band > Alastair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://users.ox.ac.uk/~newc0349 > "I am following my fish" > > > -- > unsubscribe or receive the list in digest form, mail a message of 'help' to > listserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- unsubscribe or receive the list in digest form, mail a message of 'help' to listserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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