[Dixielandjazz] soprano fun

[Paul Edgerton]

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On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Williams, Bob
<robert.c.williams at eds.com> wrote:
> 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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