Dave 123
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Your favourite Brass Band Clip
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Julia9054
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When you see Leyland, look out for my son (featured in the clip i posted) who is their soprano cornet player.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
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Thomk
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- Warwickshire
That piece is like golf and chess - easy to play but fiendishly hard to play well!
Dave 123
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- Cambridgeshire alps
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Thomk
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- Warwickshire
Your name reminded me of the this piece, the most famous living tuba player playing his most famous piece, Fnugg:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHMyrhilkdo
(Probably for tuba fans only)
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
Julia9054
Guru
- Location
- Knaresborough
For the true spirit of banding, a visit to Durham Miners Gala is a must. Each miners association or trade union has a banner. The band play early in the morning in the village and then take a bus into Durham where they march with the banner through the streets playing a mixture of traditional marches and entertaining pieces for the crowd.
Here is my band with the Deaf Hill banner. Watch the first 3 minutes for the very moving miners hymn Gresford. (My youngest is conducting and I am the short lady with light brown hair on the back row of cornets)
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=shiYglCPE54
Here is my band with the Deaf Hill banner. Watch the first 3 minutes for the very moving miners hymn Gresford. (My youngest is conducting and I am the short lady with light brown hair on the back row of cornets)
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=shiYglCPE54
Chromatic
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- Gloucestershire
At the risk of being threatened with having a cornet shoved up my jacksy, see post 13 here: https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/happy-international-bagpipe-day.97492/#post-1764893
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
I rate the Whit Friday Brass Band Competition above the Miners Gala. Perhaps it's familiarity breeding contempt. I was taken there to see my mining relatives playing in Easington Colliery Band from being a toddler through to my early teens and then recommencing independently in my late teens when beer was the primary attraction.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u6IHc14-YI
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
And I refer you to post number three
Here's a couple of tunes from bagpipes that are far more melodic than the Scottish variant
Firstly the Uilleann pipes from Ireland - if only I could play mine as well
Ans then a modern take on Northumbrian pipe music by Kathryn Tickell.
I've neglected my Northumbrian and Uilleann pipe playing and they have languished unplayed for the past couple of years.
Julia9054
Guru
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- Knaresborough
I have played at Whit Friday many times. Prefer it as a spectator these days though- Dobcross is my favourite place to watch. Cannot beat a really good band playing a traditional march.
