[Dixielandjazz] soprano fun

[Williams, Bob]

I don't mean to be a literalist, but Paul is actually nearing the END of
his 50th year.

Well, yeah, maybe I DO mean to be a literalist.

- Bob Williams

-----Original Message-----
From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
[mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of Paul
Edgerton
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:33 AM
To: Williams, Bob
Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] soprano fun

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.

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