Hmm... how do you tell when a wavelength has become more than a wavelength? When it seems to follow you relentlessly?

I hate having my eyes tested. I always think they're trying to trick me...

Depending on which eye they do first, I come away with 'your sight is fine, you don't need glasses!' or 'you can't see past the end of your nose, buy these expensive glasses'. The joys of being long AND short sighted - very in both directions!

I'm always concerned when I go into an opticians. If someone you know says "Hello" to you how can you say "Hello..sorry, I didn't see you there!" Wouldn't bode well for the eye test would it??


"When you are playing your instrument/singing in a concert, what do you do if you want to sneeze?"

*One of my students asked me that this evening!*

Concentrate harder on your music. Don't know if it's really true but someone once told me that professional players don't cough or sneeze during a performance because they are fully concentrated on performing - only bored audience members cough

If it's in the middle of a hymn...... no, maybe you don't want the details....

Yes we do!!!

erm.....are you sure???
on a public forum.......

Maybe not..tell me on Saturday

aww we won't find out then, unless you PM us all

It doesn't take a great deal of imagination.

My kiwi fruit is rubbish.


Well, it is the 'random' thread.....

I got a copy of the Inner Game of Music in a charity shop for 99p. I know some people are fans of it, and others found it useless, but for 99p I figured I'd give it a read Pretty much anything is readable when it only costs 99p

It was obviously a gift from someone to someone else, as it has an inscription on the front. This is not an exact quote, but it goes along the lines of:
"Dear A, I hope you find this book as helpful as I did in teaching me how to quiet the inner critic and just enjoy whatever it is I'm playing, love B".

It's kind of nice to find a dedication in a book where you know it meant something to someone

That's one of the ways...

I give up! I just spent over a minute wondering why on earth there is a thread about playing inside a recorder. ('Playing in a recorder' - Sarah123).

So did I

Sorry to dissappoint you!

I did that

Outside the local music school this afternoon (Wednesday when schools are shut and the music school is it at its busiest) two ten year old girls, one with a trumpet case open in front of her and a little sign "Aidez nous" (help us) and a trumpet in her hand. I could hear music playing as I approached but thought it was just a lesson I could hear through and open window and it stopped as soon as I came round the corner and she saw me; upon which her friend said in a loud whisper "If you stop playing every time somebody comes past we'll never get any money"

The Old Ladies Traditional Values Association thread has suddenly taken a new direction

that's a lovely story, Kerioboe.
an entrepreneur in the making!!





or is it 'entrepreneuse' ?

Thank you Saxfan! I'm glad to be eccentric, like a great many of the people on this forum!


One of my eccentricities is to have kept a record of every nasty post you've ever made, either to me or about me Every one I've ever seen you make anyway, I've probably missed a few! I just thought they might come in useful one day, and that day has come

i am doing a secret ballot: i need to know whether your answer is yes or no. there is no question, as such. just yes or no. please vote!

I wondered if you meant you are writing the music too - when I read that as a 'secret ballet'....

well... i could. if i get enough yes votes i'll write the music, i promise. but you ain't voted!

I'll have to take your word for this Saxfan - my memory doesn't go back anything like as far as yours!

But you're a bit behind the times - these days skylarks are more like guided missiles, they have precision aim, able to fire without hurting anything or anyone except whatever or whoever tries to do harm to them

maybe there is a reluctance to vote without a question... or even an answer
bit like politics really.. vote for us and we will tell you what's going on later! You don't need to know what we stand for... please just vote for us

You don't seem so keen to engage me in conversation as you were the other day Saxfan


Can't you handle it when I play you at your own game


Come on Saxfan, you seemed to find it fun the other day I'll repost my comments from the previous page in a minute and see if you can think of a suitable riposte

So come on Saxfan, let's have a random comment about my reply to your post, you weren't so shy the other day about posting

Cat got your tongue Saxfan

What about a biting riposte to this one then... surely you can think of some smart-alec reply that will put me in my place





Tell you what Saxfan, I'll make it easy for you - I'll go to bed now and then you'll have all night to think of something suitably cutting - make sure you make it subtle though, something that only I will appreciate the significance of

I thought this was the sort of fun you wanted to have Saxfan but you've been on the board already this morning and you don't seem to be playing any more

Have you gone off this game now that the rules have changed

TODAY I HANG


.....my paintings in my latest exhibition



(Opens next week in Aberdeenshire if anyone's interested - we're having a preview party on Sunday with drinkies, nibbles and press photographers..... all welcome!)

I wonder if skylark has started legal proceedings yet and when she will be moving to the other forum...

None of your business

And sorry to disappoint you, but I didn't say I'd be "moving to another forum"... I said I'd "probably be organising events from another forum". I know certain people are trying to get me off this board, but you won't find it that easy

Surely posting your plan of action on a public forum made it everyone's business?

I'm flattered by your interest, but my lips are now sealed under the circumstances

Best way. Did you delete all your posts which goaded SF after you made your initial threat? Count against your argument, would they not?

Surely if you ARE taking legal action against the ABRSM you should stop posting on their forum?

You're not trying to engage me in a conversation are you mrbouffant?

Or alternatively, the ABRSM should stop you posting on their forum...

A person whose opinion I value was singing your praises after Leeds. I felt I might make the effort. Should I continue?

Bless you both for taking such an interest in me

I don't think I've ever had the pleasure of such a long conversation with either of you in all the time I've been here

Unless you count the PMs

MrB and I like to play "Good cop - Bad cop"

Put my truncheon down.

Which cop is which? I get confused!

I'm the bad one

Ah, typecast again!

Exactement

My oboe teacher accompanied me on the piano this morning. He kept apologising for playing too loudly and said by way of justification that he always plays too loudly when he's sight-reading.
I always play too quietly when I'm sight-reading.

So two thoughts:
1) Can the world be divided into quiet sight-readers and loud sight-readers?

2) Is the ability to play loudly when sight-reading what differentiates professionals from amateurs?

I've got 3 times as much sheet music in a flat keysig as in a sharp keysig

And I prefer sharp keysigs

Daughter out law's brother is killing my lovely grand piano and singing horribly too. Their two dogs are going mad and I can hear it three rooms away! Off to my studio for some peace!