[Dixielandjazz] soprano fun

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

>>That's an interesting idea, Russ. And I bet that if kilts were the
>> uniform, the sound would be convincing too!
>> -- Paul Edgerton

Comments like that suggest the possibility, if they are 
made by the owner of s straight soprano, in earshot of 
so large and intolerant a Scotsman as I am, of the person 
suddenly becoming the owner of a curved one, though in 
order to play it he'd have to speak nicely and get me to
unwrap it from around his neck . . . . . .  ???? 

OK, as long as Paul's joking, so am I!  And I do remember 
Stanley Dance's comment at Newport long ago, to the effect:
'We heard what turned out to have been Coltrane's soprano. 
"Scotland is represented?" we inquired.'

But then that admirable critic was nonetheless an 
Englishman too. 



       
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