I'm now offline until after the event : if anyone wants to contact me, drop me a text, or give me a call.

A thoroughly enjoyable day!

Really enjoyed the masterclass. Tim Lines gave me some very useful pointers, which I've taken on board *makes note of shiny new F# fingering* . It always good to get someone else's viewpoint on your playing, and I found it very enlightening.

The ensemble stuff was all good fun too. Those of you who were there : should I take grade 8 in maracas?

Great to see Morgan's Munchkin, smd, clarinet_michelle and flutelady again, and great to see you for the first time david123. You all played very well.

Next year's event is likely to be around about the same time (which would bring it to May 16th 2010, if exactly the same Sunday), if you are a clari or sax player, I'd put it in the diary now!

To say I was inspired would be putting it mildly, I didn't expect to be playing on stage by the end of the day, but I was. I was a bit out of my depth with some of the notes (and the speed that they where played at), but even through I was petrified I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Barry, you where brilliant in the masterclass and I was enthralled, I think I have a long way to travel.

It was a long day, but a very enjoyable one, I will certainly be back next year.

I want also to thank Sue for all the encouragement she gave me.

To sum it up,If it hadn't been for you guy's on the forum, I would never have had the nerve to attend.
Thank you for all your support.

back to the day job

I was completly shattered by the time I got home, but it was a fab day.

The masterclasses were brilliant, and really helpful even though everyone was way better than me.

I'm looking forward to next year.

I must admit to opening a bottle of wine when I got home, and boring Caroline to death with the days events.

Glad you had a great time - one year I won't have a prior engagement on the day of this event!

What is the shiny new F# fingering? I strongly believe you can never know enough alternative fingerings and always want more.

Indeed it was a good day

David - you did very well!! The pieces in the single reed choir certainly weren't easy!! I somehow ended up on Clarinet 2 and was terrified by the semi-quavers!!

Barry - definately take grade 8 maracas....that was classic!

I was a little jealous of the piece that the sax choir got to play compared to the clarinet choir one - but then again if we'd done that then me and Barry would have probably spent more time counting themes than actually playing it!

And I'm afraid I missed the masterclasses - I was trying out new clarinets

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Indeed it was a good day

David - you did very well!! The pieces in the single reed choir certainly weren't easy!! I somehow ended up on Clarinet 2 and was terrified by the semi-quavers!!

Thank you

But I must admit it was all way above my lowly status. I missed out the bits I couldn't handle.

After the novice performance I thought that was it, but the conductor yanked me out of my seat with the words "no excuses" and a big grin. I was also terrified, but it was nice to have been in the choir.
Must admit I felt really good when it was all over, and I leaned a lot.

Great day great people.

You did fine David - I missed out the bits I couldn't play too - I think everyone does it

Glad I was not the only one doing it lol. I must admit the day inspired me

I did my best. Glad you enjoyed my playing, and the day in general. I'll be back next year, and I would like to do the masterclass again.



Glad you enjoyed the day smd : I saw you making copious notes in the masterclass - Tim Lines was rather good, wasn't he?



Adding the right hand 'banana' key to basic F# fingering, and also the bottom fingering on the wfg.woodwind website, which I'd utterly forgotten about, though I *think* he recommended using the B key, not the Eb key. I'll have to go to my notes to check that, and I'll have a bit of a play around with my clari a little later. Not that I need any excuses to do that!



Morgan's Munchkin likes!!!!!!

Glad you had a good day, and you're quite right about the counting themes bit!



No worries MM Did you find a clari you liked? I bet you quite enjoyed seeing Charles Hine playing baritone sax too...



Yeah, we do...

shocked lol

I got 2 DVDs through the post today from a wonderful lady and her husband. I got chatting to them at the Colchester meeting.
They had loads of photos of the event and put them to music, the second DVD was of all the music that we played.

Another birthday present .

What nice people there are in this world.

That sounds brilliant David!

Yup and you are on it Barry

Fame at last!!!!

Do I get Fame too??

I should think so

you are all there......acolades for everybody

now to get the whole of 'Suite for Emma' into a performable state for my recital with bohemian and mwl1 in York in November...

Sounds like a lot of work is going to happen in the Barry household

Date for the diary : the 2010 Colchester single reed day will be on Sunday 16th May '10, same venue as last time...

Thanks Barry,

Put in the diary.

Regards, Peter.

see you there!

I'll start a new thread in the new year

I my Diary to.
Looking forward to it.