[Dixielandjazz] soprano fun

[EDWIN COLTRIN]

Ach, bairn, bairn, try 83 looking at 84. 
   
  Please don't fight
   
  Slainte m'hath
   
  ED

Don Ingle <dingle at nomadinter.net> wrote: 
  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
> 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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