Saxophone beginners Why call it C when it's E flat?

[ukwoody]

where Griff the sax Merlin toils deep in its bowels surrounded by broken springs, discarded pads and bent necks.
Colin

...and the smog from croydon;}
woody

 

[Mikec]

Hi,
Shirley used to be a nice quiet spot in the 70's.
I was born in Winchester Rd, then moved to Anglesea Rd.
Left in 1974 for New Zealand,

Rod

I just missed you, then. I lived in Shirley in 1974, just missing Tommy Cooper's Mum's sweet shop which was closed by then. (It was down at the Atherley end of the High St.). My sister lived there for 40-odd years, It didn't seem quiet to me, being my first time in a Big City, though I suppose it was compared to some places.

 

[old git]

Get real. Shirley and West Wickham are border towns. Surrey/Kent inter county smuggling takes place over the mighty River Beck and sometimes 119 buses are abducted by the Beck Pirates. The CaSLM is occasionally involved in ransom negotiations but apart from a little Surrey Cigar and Kentish Crotchet exchange, deplores this form of Tax avoidance.
What can the Sotton version offer in comparison?
(Bet you wish you'd never mentioned Shirley.)

 

[Mikec]

Get real. Shirley and West Wickham are border towns. Surrey/Kent inter county smuggling takes place over the mighty River Beck and sometimes 119 buses are abducted by the Beck Pirates. The CaSLM is occasionally involved in ransom negotiations but apart from a little Surrey Cigar and Kentish Crotchet exchange, deplores this form of Tax avoidance.
What can the Sotton version offer in comparison?
(Bet you wish you'd never mentioned Shirley.)

Erm.. Someone once stole my sister's front gate. It didn't make the local newspaper, though, so they must have considered that petty crime. The nerve!

 

[old git]

Just been checking the CaSLM Left Luggage facility and found a long abandoned front gate alongside a Gladstone bag containing a railway ticket to Worthing.
Both can be yours for a £200 donation to Pete and a £250 delivery charge as we will have to get substantial strengthening and added brackets welded to the Zimmer Frame for the transportation.

 

[Young Col]

Do you mean a Gladstone bag? Or was it an ordinary hand bag with handles. Losing that sounds like carelessness to me.

 

[ukwoody]

I only asked how shirley was... 3 pages ago🙂

I'm actually a "Warrenite" ie from Shirley Warren, so know thw Winchester road /anglsea rd area very well.

woody

 

[Mikec]

Just been checking the CaSLM Left Luggage facility and found a long abandoned front gate alongside a Gladstone bag containing a railway ticket to Worthing.
Both can be yours for a £200 donation to Pete and a £250 delivery charge as we will have to get substantial strengthening and added brackets welded to the Zimmer Frame for the transportation.

Are you in earnest?

 

[kevgermany]

Are you in earnest?

He will be if he tries to pick that lot up

 

[Pete Thomas]

Erm.. Someone once stole my sister's front gate. It didn't make the local newspaper, though, so they must have considered that petty crime. The nerve!

There seems to be an epidemic of front gate rustling in the Southampton area. I wouldn't betting they are being "fenced" further north though.

Next time I'm driving along the A232 I'll be on the lookout for any house with more than the EU recommended number of 1.4 front gates.

 

[ukwoody]

There seems to be an epidemic of front gate rustling in the Southampton area. I wouldn't betting they are being "fenced" further north though.

That'll be Gateshead then 🙂))

woody

 

[old git]

This entered my mind whilst lying semi-comatose. Waddya mean, when are you not?

Thought that the whole transposition problem could have been avoided if families of musical instruments should be built an octave apart rather than in our case, Bb/Eb ranges.

Would the tonal changes be so great that they would no longer sound like a family or are there other technical reasons to avoid all C families? Realise that there are weight and size problems, as each member would be twice as long as its higher neighbour.

What other disadvantages would arise other than re-design, pre and production financial costs?