This doesn't exactly warrant it's own topic but I thought it would be a shame to put it in one of the results threads and hijack all of the much deserved congratulations.

QUOTE (Billymay @ Feb 26 2005, 12:23 PM)

...your certificate won't be ready quite so soon as it has been to sent away to be specially calligraphed by hand.

I just looked at this and thought the FRSM certificates must look ever so impressive and wondered what they are like! I've seen a dip one (not mine unfortunately ): they're like the grade ones except that they have bronze metallic lettering and crest instead of the blue on the graded ones (and also the diploma of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music is in bronze lower down with a nice squiggle underneath).

So what do LRSM and FRSM certificates look like are they silver/gold? and what's hand written?

The Advanced Cert ones used to be specially hand-calligraphed for the candidate's name and the subject taken. They looked very impressive!

my Ad Cert one in 1997 is exactly the same as what jo.clarinet had described whilst my LRSM one has silver lettering.

i really really wanna know what colour of lettering the FRSM one has!!

To Margaret and sonata_in_b:

u have both done ur FRSM, can u tell me what does ur cert look like? is it also A4 size?

from Duen Duen

QUOTE (rubinstein @ Feb 28 2005, 04:01 PM)

my Ad Cert one in 1997 is exactly the same as what jo.clarinet had described whilst my LRSM one has silver lettering. Â

Is/was Advanced Certificate a substitution for the dipABRSM prerequisite for the current (2005) LRSM (or the previous 2004 LRSM)? Is that how you know what LRSM certificates look like without having seen a dipABRSM one? Just curious.

Thanks for the information about the LRSM one and also to jo.clarinet for explaining the advanced certificates.

Hi AnotherPianist,

At the top of the FRSM certificate (which is larger in size than the ones for DipABRSM & LRSM), the words "The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music" are embossed in gold. The hand-calligraphed portion of the cert reads:

This is to certify that xxx (name, in blue ink; all other words in black ink) has been examined in xxx xxx (instrument / subject line) and having fulfilled the requirements of the syllabus with distinction is hereby admitted a

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SCHOOLS OF MUSIC (These words in capital letters are also embossed in gold). Just above the signatures of the Chariman of the Board and the Chief Executive, the date of the examination (month / year) is also written by hand, in black.

- Billymay

Thanks for that information Billymay it sounds really impressive; very suitable for the impressive qualification it represents. Congratulations on getting one and thanks for letting us know what it looks like .

Billymay - That certainly sounds worth waiting for. Mine won't say the word Distinction though!! What did you take your FRSM diploma in? What are your plans now...Margaret

I remember (back in the olden days) looking proudly at my hand-calligraphed Advanced Certificate when it arrived and realising that they'd hand-calligraphed my surname wrong!

The AB were very nice about it and sent me another one.

I was really disappointed with my certificate. I thought it would be hand written and the "with distinction" bit was tiny - much smaller than the normal certificates!

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Billymay - That certainly sounds worth waiting for. Mine won't say the word Distinction though!! What did you take your FRSM diploma in? What are your plans now...Margaret

Hi Margaret,

Sorry for the very tardy reply as I've been off the forum for the last month or so. My FRSM was in organ performance. I'm currently exploring works that I've always wanted to learn but haven't had the time so far, for instance, the Choral Fantasias of Reger.