Klarinet Archive - Posting 000106.txt from 1999/07

From: jim and joyce <lande@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] re: 4th of July Celebrations
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 00:07:46 -0400

Our neighborhood has a parade running about 6 blocks and
ending (where it starts) at the community house. Then hamburgers and
hotdogs various salads and
watermelon and deserts. Our neighborhood band plays twice a year. Our

youngest player (this year) was a 5th grader. Some years the band has
several
ringers from service bands (the Washington D.C. area has several) and
the band
sounds better than the high school band I played in. This year we had
fewer ringers,
the director handed out three new marches (one of which I had never
heard before,
much less played -- and naturally I brought my eefer with no lyre) and
for some
reason we all didn't tune up. I play by ear and that is hard when no
note actually
sounds right. Anyway, the three drummers kept a very tight rhythm --
no surprise, two are professional musicians. Whenever the drums simply
played cadence, however, one of the high school girls would doodle on
her trumpet and pretty soon a third of the band would pick up the tune.

We were followed by the precision lawnmower team. Unfortunately, they
had pulled their spark plugs, so they didn@-----.

Afterwards, at least a dozen people came over to say how wonderful the
band sounded, etc, etc. Moral: stick to the beat, play loud, don=92t
sweat the small stuff and keep moving. And choose a durable
instrument. No sense taking a pro horn --- it might learn some bad
habits.

Hope everyone else had a great fourth.

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