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post Feb 23 2011, 08:46 PM
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I looked up some music I wanted to buy. It cost ?47.99.

French by any chance?



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That was the Ibert flute concerto...


Is there any good reason for French woodwind music to be so expensive???

Especially since I love French flute music!
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post Feb 23 2011, 08:48 PM
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I looked up some music I wanted to buy. It cost ?47.99.

French by any chance?



QUOTE(nicki_flute @ Feb 23 2011, 08:42 PM) *

That was the Ibert flute concerto...


Is there any good reason for French woodwind music to be so expensive???

No idea. But it's not just the woodwind music.

My daughter's trombone music costs me a fortune. She only plays music by contemporary French composers. Each piece is sold individually and costs between 10 and 15 euros. Since she is not particuarly advanced the piece is usually 1 A4 piece of paper for the trombone part and 3 A4 sheets for the piano part. Given the price I can't believe that some of them are so stingy that the last page of the piano part is printed on the cover (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)

What's even worse is that sometimes her teacher gets me to buy a piece and then decides that he doesn't want to use it after all (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)
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post Feb 23 2011, 08:49 PM
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I looked up some music I wanted to buy. It cost ?47.99.

French by any chance?



QUOTE(nicki_flute @ Feb 23 2011, 08:42 PM) *

That was the Ibert flute concerto...


Is there any good reason for French woodwind music to be so expensive???

Especially since I love French flute music!


It's no better in clarinet world, Nicki : some Paris Conservatoire pieces are very expensive...
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French by any chance?
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QUOTE(nicki_flute @ Feb 23 2011, 08:42 PM) *

That was the Ibert flute concerto...


Is there any good reason for French woodwind music to be so expensive???

Especially since I love French flute music!


It's no better in clarinet world, Nicki : some Paris Conservatoire pieces are very expensive...

That is why I love : http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/Flute-...mposers/3164902
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I looked up some music I wanted to buy. It cost ?47.99.

French by any chance?



QUOTE(nicki_flute @ Feb 23 2011, 08:42 PM) *

That was the Ibert flute concerto...


Is there any good reason for French woodwind music to be so expensive???

No idea. But it's not just the woodwind music.
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I second that - when I was a horn student I remember paying what seemed like an extortionate amount for En Foret by Bozza - I cannot remember how much exactly but it was two or three times the price of any of my other pieces. Including some entire books of orchestral excerpts, and including other still-in-copyright music.
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Sorry to be less serious but on the BBC website regarding the Cornish Pasty now being protected.

"It said the filling should be "chunky, made up of uncooked mince or chunks of beef with swede, potato and onion and a light seasoning" and that the pasty should be slow-baked".

Mince???
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Definitely not. I see it's being given "Protected Geographical Status" so only pasties made in Cornwall can be called Cornish.
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I'm officially going insane... I just had an irresistible/inexplicable urge to hear my "home" language. It's bizarre, because although it was "technically" my first language, I began speaking English when I went to school, and my parents didn't enforce "no-English" rules at home so I'm much, much more fluent in English... but being at school I NEVER hear it - at home it's at least mixed somewhat into our speech. So now I'm listening to a TERRIBLE movie on YouTube for the sole purpose of hearing the language... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif)
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I'm officially going insane... I just had an irresistible/inexplicable urge to hear my "home" language. It's bizarre, because although it was "technically" my first language, I began speaking English when I went to school, and my parents didn't enforce "no-English" rules at home so I'm much, much more fluent in English... but being at school I NEVER hear it - at home it's at least mixed somewhat into our speech. So now I'm listening to a TERRIBLE movie on YouTube for the sole purpose of hearing the language... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif)

That's an experience English speakers are very unlikely ever to have... I have friends of various nationalities (or descendents of...), some of whom sometimes have these attacks of linguistic nostalgia. You are not alone in your "insanity". (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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I know what you mean, Lilly. Although I've always spoken 'English', the way it's spoken at home is very different to how it's spoken where I'm studying. Sometimes I end up trawling youtube to find people talking, and I've recently found our local radio station from home online, so I can listen to that and feel like I'm at home. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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Sorry stetenorve, i didn't even realise i'd been missing them out (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) far to eager to reply to everyone (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) i shall try and keep my typing in check (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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Sorry to be less serious but on the BBC website regarding the Cornish Pasty now being protected.

"It said the filling should be "chunky, made up of uncooked mince or chunks of beef with swede, potato and onion and a light seasoning" and that the pasty should be slow-baked".

Mince???
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Definitely not. I see it's being given "Protected Geographical Status" so only pasties made in Cornwall can be called Cornish.


Yep that's right (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Seeing some of the things that have been called 'Cornish Pasties' when visiting other counties I think it's a good thing.

However, as they are in Cornwall, Ginsters are still allowed to call themselves Cornish (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) It's a push to call them pasties!!
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However, as they are in Cornwall, Ginsters are still allowed to call themselves Cornish (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) It's a push to call them pasties!!

Having now had a real Cornish pastie, I won't eat a Ginsters one again...
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However, as they are in Cornwall, Ginsters are still allowed to call themselves Cornish (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) It's a push to call them pasties!!

Having now had a real Cornish pasty, I won't eat a Ginsters one again...


ah, that's better (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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mmmmm this topic is making me hungry now!! to be fair, nothing can be a real cornish pasty!
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