Yes, welcome back, nannyjay!

What she doesn't tell you is that she'll also lend you an instruction booklet written in a foreign language and using at least three different alphabets .

Hi nannyjay. Really good to see you back! Yes, of course you can join in. It's not compulsory to bring an instrument at all - not a musical version of a bring-and-share lunch - but it is compulsory to try something new.

We've got an electric guitar for you to try Barry lol!

I don't know if I dare bring no2 to this lol!

Thats a thought.. Will there be a minimum age for us youngsters on our own? I can't see my parents willing to come with me, if they let me go.

My thoughts on this would be that the minimum age policy would be the same as at other forum events (under 18s to be accompanied).

Yes, those were my thoughts too. But you don't have to be accompanied by parents if you can find another adult to bring you.

Didn't make that terribly clear in my last reply, apologies. Andante is quite right here.

I'd like to try accordion - anyone got one?

A Sunday in November in London I could probably make (although the RNCM sax day is usually a sunday in November...). I have no great desire to try other instruments being well and truly smitten with my saxes (well, one of them anyway) but could bring saxes and reasonable mouthpiece/reed combinations. Actually, I've been doing a bit of mouthpiece buying and selling on ebay recently and have accumulated a collection of alto and tenor mouthpieces and ligs if any existing sax players wanted to try a different set-up...

That would be good, TSax. Thanks.

i would like to come i can bring a selection of bamboo flutes fifes recorders treble and descant i would like to try a sax but will bring hubby too he is guitar man bass classical and electric

it will be nice to meet everyone from the forums

monkey flute

Great.

I hope you didn't buy the Lebayle tenor mpc I bid on last week

No - I did see it and had it on my watch list but didn't bid. It looked very nice but a little more open than I really want at the moment. Plus I've bought two tenor mps in recent weeks, one I have a feeling is going to become my main piece, the other will either come in at some point or I'll resell later. I won an alto piece earlier today and have just breached my limit of only using what I had in my PayPal account as the proceeds of sales. I'd really like to try a Lawton but they do seem to get top prices.

Okay.. I thought 16 would be old enough...

*Thinks*

It's a nice idea and you can certainly count us in to bring some instruments if there's one in the future which is not on a Sunday and which is further North. I won't do Sundays.

Liz

Thanks for that, Liz. If this is successful it may well spawn other similar events, and we'll bear in mind that you aren't available on Sundays.

That sounds good TSax!



I've never tried playing a bamboo flute - and perhaps your other half can make a guitarist out of me....

Another instrument to join the b-c musical instrument collection? I'm tempted!

oooh, and maybe a violin. And a viola. And maybe more recordery things.

Sarah-flute, I've caught your multi-instrument bug! Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Isn't it just...

some people just have no idea of restraint.

My restraint is the months it takes me to save for new instruments!!!

I'm about to give credit where credit is due.

In the original Take a Grade 1 challenge thread, which I started back in 2005, katyjay contributed the following:



I would like to officailly attribute the germination of this idea to katyjay. Obviously it was simmering in my subconscious for a couple of years.

That's the dangerous bit!


Contagious, dangerous, and incurable.


Oh, it's katyjay's fault is it? *grin*

This is looking exciting! Not sure if I can cart a harp over unless someone's going from my end of the woods and can give a lift, but will definitely be adding this to my "really want to attend" list.

Sarah

Of course it's my fault. I turn my back for a week and an idea comes up on a thread.....

Stands to reason it's my fault.

I just felt I couldn't really take the credit.

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Whoever's idea it is, I love it

I think it's a great idea. Depending on venue and date I'd be interested. I'd be able to bring along a couple of spare clarinets for people to try, plus recorders and a spare alto sax. The only problem might be the date. A group I play in normally do a family concert in the morning and an evening concert on one of the Saturdays around that time of year. I don't think I'd cope with 2 concerts in Brum and this all in 1 weekend.

If there was someone there prepared to try to prove to me I can get past Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on any stringed instrument (except guitar!) or oboe I'd be more than happy.

Can newbies like me join too ?
There are a couple of instruments I'd like to try and I can offer my bass viol, if anyone's interested