[Dixielandjazz] soprano fun

[Paul Edgerton]

Sir, my English ancestor came to the new world by way of an extended
stay in Scotland.

That said, perhaps you have not yet heard what we in California call a
"Squawk-A-Rama." The allusion to a chorus of pipes is chillingly
accurate. Sadly, the intonation is not nearly as accurate.

In my younger and more foolish days, I played a great deal of Soprano.
As I begin my fiftieth year, I sincerely hope that I have acquired a
greater degree of refinement!

-- Paul Edgerton

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:28 PM, ROBERT R. CALDER
<serapion at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>  >>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.