Champ/First : Treherbert Band

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Weston-Super-Mare – Own Choice Contest - 2007

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Section Entered : Championship/First
National Grading : First Section
Order of Play : 2
Musical Director : Graham Sheppard
Chosen Test Piece : Land of the Long White Cloud






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No score or music supplied

Grand opening... excellent start.

Again, very difficult to comment specifically without a score to refer to, but this piece is progressing beautifully with the band producing a wonderfully balanced sound. I would like to have heard more from the Basses, but so far... so good.

Slightly messy horns on quaver entries before fast section...

Also a little messy into the fast section and seems to lose a little control here too. The sound also seems to have become harsh, certainly more harsh than it was when you started the piece.

Nice muted effects...

Messy sop on 7/8 (sorry)

Into slow section..... nice balance in muted cts, horn and flug miss entries...

Sop Solo: tentative start but you recover fully. Nice solo ct sound... esp on lower notes... nice Flg

This is now building into a well balanced section at this point... semi-quaver section: excellent start to this, keep in time... lovely Euph sound... cts/trom well balanced too... I feel the sound is a tad too harsh from the cornets within this section... it's a shame!

Flug/Horn into fast section works well...

Again, a little messy on fast semi quaver runs.

Bass / Bass Trom good start and accel...

Tuning on top D's cornet!!!

Finale: good sounds to close with good accel and presto!.

thanks.





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