[Dixielandjazz] soprano fun

[EDWIN COLTRIN]

Ah Lads, dinna diparage the "Skirl of the Pipes". In Gaelic if I remember, "Skirl" is to scream or screech. 
   
  But with enough single malt aboard, tis a truly fine sound., but of course with Edinburgh being my familial source what else could  I do
   
  Music content Soprano sax compared to pipes
   
  Slainte m'hath 
   
  Ye Olde Mouldy Fygge
   
  Ed Coltrin

Paul Edgerton <paul.edgerton at gmail.com> wrote:
  The World's Most Modest Man has come out of hiding -- congratulations
on your first DJML post since 7/19/2007!

See what you've been missing?


On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Williams, Bob
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
> 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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