<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Plenty of brass, those assembled tubas and sousaphones!<br></div>You must have attended the 1984 Edinburgh festival.<br></div>Cheers<br></div>On second thought, it might have been 1992.<br></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br> <table style="border-top:1px solid #d3d4de">
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<a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 April 2018 at 06:27, ROBERT R. CALDER <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:serapion@btinternet.com" target="_blank">serapion@btinternet.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">  <div id="m_797106417367459158yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522810667979_8146" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">WHERE THERE&#39;S BRASS </div><div id="m_797106417367459158yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522810667979_8147" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br id="m_797106417367459158yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522810667979_8148"></div><div id="m_797106417367459158yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522810667979_8149" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">The bass drum and cymbals and all? </div><div id="m_797106417367459158yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522810667979_8150" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">It was like the roar </div><div id="m_797106417367459158yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522810667979_8151" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">you&#39;d imagine from a Loch Ness Monster, </div><div id="m_797106417367459158yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522810667979_8152" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">no less no more -</div><div id="m_797106417367459158yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522810667979_8153" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br id="m_797106417367459158yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522810667979_8154"></div><div id="m_797106417367459158yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522810667979_8155" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="ltr">but as the curtain rose,</div><div id="m_797106417367459158yui_3_1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RISM </div><div id="m_797106417367459158yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522810667979_8168" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="ltr"><br id="m_797106417367459158yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522810667979_8169"></div><div id="m_797106417367459158yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522810667979_8170" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="ltr">Stop bucking the plan, Joe!  </div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>