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I've booked myself trumpet lessons. They start on Monday - the day after my birthday.

happy birthday 4 later trumpeteer x

Thank you!

Not sure what to do on my birthday yet. I may go to see 'The Queen', which I gather is rather good - unless I can think of something more fun to do.

well if i was,nt fully booked i could have taken you out for dinner
and made it the best birthday ever x

u could email me at [email protected]

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Trumpet? You will need plenty of this then - . Eddie Calvert eat your heart out!!

If you do go to see 'The Queen' do tell us what you think. All the reviews etc. have been good, and it seems to have converted even her 'impersonator'!!

Have a good day whatever you do.

Websailor

Have you seen "Brassed Off", Zarq?

Hello, MOSTHAUNTED,

What a lovely offer! I suspect I may well go to the Wetland Centre - or maybe go into London to mooch around and have a meal.

Hi Websailor

Thank you for the card!! I certainly will need plenty of . I can do a scale, but not a lot else (and then not always cleanly). When I took the trumpet camping last year, other people found my practising quite hard to be with. I do need a teacher, though. I found it quite difficult to motivate myself without the discipline of being given something specific to do. I just about managed 'Doh a Deer'.

Hi Gnomon!

No, I haven't seen 'Brassed Off' - is it good?

Brassed Off is excellent. Well worth watching - plenty of brass band music, plenty of humour, and Ewan McGregor!

My words exactly - a very moving (if a little kitsch-y) film. I'm biased because I think Ewan McGregor is great. I liked it in a way better than "The Full Monty" - but both are sad films with touching stories.

no probs just have a great time and when you come home drunk dont start blowing that trumpet!!
xxrichxx

Having had a quick Google, I think I may have seen it ages ago. I don't remember Ewan McGregor, though. Maybe I'll have a look round to see if I can get hold of a copy. It'll be a bit too old to borrow from the video library, I think.

I'll let you know how the lessons go.

will u email me x

ZSF what exactly made you choose the trumpet? Do you just happen to have one lying around or did you decide you MUST play the trumpet regardless?

Recently I've been noticing that I particularly enjoy music with trumpets in it. There is such a liberating feeling about it for some reason - particularly Latin American music, and I just love Robbie Williams' "Me and my Monkey" because of the trumpet intro.

So I wondered if you had perhaps been affected by that.

I've a trumpet lying around.

TC - Roy plays trumpet, and he has a spare one. He used to play trumpet at school (he was went to TS (training ship) Mercury and was leading trumpeter there, so he was definitely my inspiration. Although he was leading trumpeter, he didn't read music until just recently (he has dyslexia), so he's been learning pieces which sounded fun. I'd like to be able to play with him.

I put my name down at a local centre here and heard nothing for ages, then suddenly a place came up and I thought I'd go for it.

Gnomon - I remember you saying you could get a scale out of it, but nothing higher. I can manage a scale - although the quality of note varies from time to time.

Had my first lesson and for some reason I found it difficult to get the bottom note. My lips were too tight, so I was given the exercise of making flubbing sounds with my lips - something I have never found particularly easy to do. To strengthen my breathing, I was given an exercise of putting a piece of paper against a wall or a door and blowing to keep it in place. Again, first attempts were dreadful. The paper just fell away. The other exercise which I found much easier (as I've done it for singing) was to expand the ribs on the inbreath and to keep them expanded on the outbreath, using the stomach to force the air out.

Little came with me and seemed interested.

I'm told that my brace may be a hindrance and if it does, I may transfer the lessons to singing lessons, as he does singing lessons too.

Oh,

I do hope you don't have to drop the trumpet. I was going to book you for my funeral as I fancy going out with the New Orleans Funeral March. Still, perhaps you could sing instead!!


Websailor

Well, Websailor

What a wonderful invitation! Now I'll have a real incentive to practice, although I reckon it might take me quite some while to get proficient enough for that, so you'll have to live a good long life just to make sure I am! Do you have any particular favourite tunes that you would like playing?

I have sung at someone's funeral a few years ago. It was really neat. I went to the funeral of the husband of the warden at my Quaker meeting, which was held at a place with wonderful accoustics. The funeral was totally unlike any I've ever been to before. No priest. Three Quaker elders sat facing the audience and one of them spoke initially, then we had silence and people in the meeting (even a funeral is a meeting) stood and spoke as the spirit moved. I sang the first verse of 'Sleep on Beloved' http://www.garrygillard.net/watersons/songs/sleep.html and because of the wonderful accoustics, it sounded lovely.

I would definitely like it to be sung at my funeral.

Dearest ZSF,

Happee Burfday my

I knew thst you three were going to Cornwall/Devon for the weekend to celebrate all the vaiours birthdays. I thought of you but did not write because as usual it takes me an age to get onto the computer.

and now, you are taking trumpet lessons.

I would think that it is dreadfully painful with a brace. But very enterprising.

Now you cannot let us down. You booked to go to Kew, and Gnoman and Azara are also going to Kew so you MUST come to Kew!!.
At the moment I have no outside phone. I have paid A third monthly payment to Orange (I wanted to stay with Wannadoo,) and over £65 to the Carphone Warehouse and £46 to BT plus a DD of £30 p.m. All three deny that I am a client.!!! And I cannot phone anyone to tell them that they have taken my money in the last three weeks, and also last month.

What to do
I cannot phone, and my printer is not working.


Things are so awful that I just know they are going to get better!!

Lots of and I hope you enjoyed the Queen. I would also like to see it. And there is a play starting which has got that super Richard wilson in it which is about old people which is apparently very funny. I would iove to see it. It would be nice if we could met in London. I wonder if therre is a matinee?

Much affection
Christiane AR1