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 What was it like to play in a dance hall band in the 50s?
Author: SunnyDaze 
Date:   2023-10-03 18:10

Hi,

I wondered if I could ask a question that has sprung off from Fuzzy's thread about listening to recordings of great masters?

I have this family clarinet that was made in about 1918, and was played by a professional player in Edinburgh, more or less until is disintegrated, before my Granny then bought it secondhand in 1958.

I just wondered if anybody on the forum might be able to remember what is was like to be in the dance halls of the 50s and what especially it would be like to be a jobbing clarinetist at that time?

I get this sense that people then didn't have to compete with spotify and youtube, and the internet, and constant tv-on demand.

They probably also didn't worry so much about gear and practise and excellence, because they were being paid to crack out dance tunes by the hour, for really a lot of hours each week.

People perhaps weren't staring at those players, and dissecting their performance either, because the people were getting on and enjoying themselves and dancing. I really like the idea of a world like that.

I wondered if anybody would have a minute to take a walk down memory lane and talk about what that was like?
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SunnyDaze 2023-10-03 18:10 
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lydian 2023-10-03 18:48 
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SunnyDaze 2023-10-03 19:06 
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lydian 2023-10-03 19:56 
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SunnyDaze 2023-10-03 20:38 
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lydian 2023-10-03 21:47 
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SunnyDaze 2023-10-03 22:38 
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lydian 2023-10-04 01:31 
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SunnyDaze 2023-10-04 02:35 
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Julian ibiza 2023-10-04 15:29 
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Tony F 2023-10-04 15:49 
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Chris_C 2023-10-04 15:51 
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lydian 2023-10-04 19:29 
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Fuzzy 2023-10-04 20:54 
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SunnyDaze 2023-10-04 20:47 
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ElizabethMH 2023-10-06 16:55 
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Fuzzy 2023-10-07 02:33 
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kilo 2023-10-07 05:25 
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SunnyDaze 2023-10-07 05:58 
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donald 2023-10-07 11:04 
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Julian ibiza 2023-10-07 13:14 
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SunnyDaze 2023-10-07 14:02 
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Julian ibiza 2023-10-07 16:09 
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kilo 2023-10-07 18:06 
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SunnyDaze 2023-10-07 19:23 
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KenJarczyk 2023-10-11 06:49 
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Julian ibiza 2023-10-11 12:06 


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