I thoroughly enjoyed last night's performance with the South London Concert Band. A very different type of gig to the ones I play with my main band, Croydon Symphonic. We were playing in a lovely old Church in Surrey, raising funds for maintenance of the fabric.
The music was entertaining without being too challenging, since some of the band's sections are weaker than others, the selection of music was made very carefully. This meant that it was all reasonable for me to sight read on the stand. Indeed it was quite good for my self confidence since my sight reading is still not as strong on the CC as on EEb, but I am determined to keep the new toy as my principle instrument.
On a slightly different note, since we now have two regular Bass players at Croydon Brass, on Monday night we had the embarrassing problem of not having enough working instruments. Both players prefer EEb to BBb but only one of our two Imperial EEbs was working, the other having ceased up through lack of use; so I now have that one up stairs for overhaul. Just what I needed more to do!
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