Playing the saxophone The Cafe Trio grown to Octet down to Sextet

[Tenor Viol]

I did see the dot and thought rather clever...

It's all right, I spotted it. @Targa will be busy as unlike my usual scrivenings via e-mail or in other places, on fora such as this, I often don't include a full stop at the end of a post, although they often terminate with an ellipsis...

 

[Targa]

It's all right, I spotted it. @Targa will be busy as unlike my usual scrivenings via e-mail or in other places, on fora such as this, I often don't include a full stop at the end of a post, although they often terminate with an ellipsis...

Not too busy, spotting grammatical errors doesn't take long and I don't charge much for proof reading services.
I read your resource, 'People of often shy away from joining groups, bands, or orchestras and they shoudln't. This article is about why you should find a group and join and also what kind of things to expect if you do'.
Two there to begin with, several others within the body of the text.

 

[Tenor Viol]

Not too busy, spotting grammatical errors doesn't take long and I don't charge much for proof reading services.
I read your resource, 'People of often shy away from joining groups, bands, or orchestras and they shoudln't. This article is about why you should find a group and join and also what kind of things to expect if you do'.
Two there to begin with, several others within the body of the text.

Thank for your generosity. I prefer to proof read documents by printing them out to read, as for reasons unknown, mistakes seem to get missed when reviewed on screen. The issue being of course that Forum postings, including articles, just get read on screen. Other issues I have include that my typing is less accurate than it used to be. Words such as "from" tend to come out as "form" and the "ld" at the end of words like "could" get switched round. This wasn't an issue in the days of full keyboards. The other challenge is spell-checker and auto -correct changing words and you don't happen to notice.

 

[nigeld]

It's all right, I spotted it. @Targa will be busy as unlike my usual scrivenings via e-mail or in other places, on fora such as this, I often don't include a full stop at the end of a post, although they often terminate with an ellipsis...

The plural of forum is usually spelled forums; the plural fora (as in the original Latin) is chiefly used when talking about a public square in an ancient Roman city.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

 

[Tenor Viol]

The plural of forum is usually spelled forums; the plural fora (as in the original Latin) is chiefly used when talking about a public square in an ancient Roman city.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

Yes, I know but I get cross with 'Latin' words that are given Anglicised endings, hence plural of 'forum' should be 'fora'. I think over the last 40 years or so we've got lazy about these things, e.g. with words like 'data' - which is a plural and but is treated as though singular, and so on. There are many inconsistencies anyway, and other changes such as words like 'gaol' (which is what I was taught as a youngster) have almost disappeared.

 

[Tenor Viol]

Back to the ensemble, in preparation for this Sunday, some baking has been undertaken this evening. I have made two lemon drizzle cakes, one of which may be present on Sunday (the other is accounted for...). This is to encourage timely attendance by @trimmy those who are away can ask Trimmy what it was like 😉

 

[Tenor Viol]

Today we were a quintet as Chadder and Jeanette are away.We met at my house and frightened th eneighbours by playing in my conservatory... Cake was involved... and something from the Farmers' Market called 'Dragon's Breath'

 

[Jeanette]

@nickh is looking perplexed. Sorry I couldn't be with you....

Jx

 

[trimmy]

@nickh is looking perplexed. Sorry I couldn't be with you....

Jx

Perplexed at what he had just been asked to play ! 😱

We forgive you

 

[nickh]

nah. loved the renaissance stuff!
perplexed because we were missing our sop player :-(

 

[Tenor Viol]

We played through 'Groovy' with me playing the sop part on tenor and playing it up an octave... no fatalities reported. We the tried a couple of items from the quartet book, which were a pavan and galliard. And we finished with having a go at the pavan Patiencia and began to make some sense of it. Amongst the challenges that it present include the 4/2 time signature and a lot of accidentals (all those false relations).

 

[Vetinari]

Amongst the challenges that it present include the 4/2 time signature and a lot of accidentals (all those false relations).

A lot of the accidentals were when I hit the right note.🙂

 

[Alice]

Why did you put poor Trimmy in a cage?

 

[Targa]

Today we were a quintet as Chadder and Jeanette are away.We met at my house and frightened th eneighbours by playing in my conservatory...

Play in the conservatory with J on sop, one high F and you'd need to ask Pete for the phone number of his double glazing company.

 

[Jeanette]

Play in the conservatory with J on sop, one high F and you'd need to ask Pete for the phone number of his double glazing company.

That's why they did it when I wasn't there!

I love Groovy, you shouldn't do it without sop!

Jx

 

[Targa]

View attachment 9357 Why did you put poor Trimmy in a cage?

It's not a cage it's a play pen.

 

[trimmy]

@trimmy those who are away can ask Trimmy what it was like 😉

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Sorry Ron but the Mrs preferred the carrot cake 😳

But thank you for your hospitality today

 

[trimmy]

View attachment 9357 Why did you put poor Trimmy in a cage?

Otherwise.....

 

[brianr]

Otherwise.....
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Im glad to see that there were no fava beans or chianti on offer, otherwise the Cafe sax group may have been depleted even further, in the frenzy.

Ps, I also have the 2nd book of the madrigals if you wanted them too.

 

[Alice]

Im glad to see that there were no fava beans or chianti on offer, otherwise the Cafe sax group may have been depleted even further, in the frenzy.

😱😱