[Dixielandjazz] soprano fun

[Don Ingle]

50th year? Why you poor child. So much to look forward to -- and so damn 
few gigs!
Try 77 years and get back to me when you get close.
Don (who's band wife mother made it to 99) Ingle



Paul Edgerton wrote:
> 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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