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Well Jack, good to see you are still upright and able to rail against this government’s woeful management of this pandemic. Out of interest when was your positive COVID-19 test and how long did you have to wait for the answer?

David Bowie was a very able recorder player and appears on several of his songs

Oh dear Jack, why don't you view the original question posed by Fernando, look at the other replies and then conclude that your reply to me was completely inappropriate, especially given that Fernando asked for advice and is a non-native English speaker. This will also save me the mind-numbing...

My Baritone weighs 2.5Kg, my Euph weighs 4.3Kg. A Euph sits on your lap and your back will bend and twist when putting it on the floor. A Baritone is held against your chest and does not need a lot of effort to manoeuvre as it can be laid across the knees quite happily. Uncompensated instruments...

Hello Alex, a couple of assumptions that you’re a healthy man in his early 30s with a recent significant PE so my advice is based on this. 1) Specialist nurses are adequate for routine matters but nothing else, similarly with registrars and below. You may get sensible advice from a Senior...

Sunday 8th April 18. 22:30 Just returned from a concert north of here featuring Tudor dancing tunes for Concertina and brass band, it featured a chap playing concertina -invented by Charles Wheatstone of Wheatstone bridge fame, and was beautifully arranged by a chap from TMP who shares the same...

Jack, try playing a trill on your baritone from upper E to F using firstly 0 to 1, then try again using using 1+2 to 1 and you will see exactly what DT means, it's also less likely to drop to the D by mistake.

Let's stick with Beethoven and settle on the final movt of his ninth Symphony

or the hymn 'Here we suffer grief and pain'

Does it actually matter, perhaps they were short of quality basses, one never knows. Certainly in a few rehearsals we tried substituting a Euph which worked quite well. I also went to a different area and saw one band with only 5 cornets, they weren’t placed but all credit for having a real go...

So so

Slide rules and log tables

That’s the problem that started this thread so take care, furthermore it’s only two months before All Fools day and a chance to be offended so beware, gentle souls, beware.

Mesmerista, don’t be fooled, wait until you see the whites of his eyes then hit him with a sub FF

Unison Euphs

They who cannot be named

Horns on a good day

The back row

The one who cannot be named but sits beside a Euph...