I have a busy weekend looming ahead of me, on Saturday the Brass band has a gig in Surbiton playing for a Mason's dinner. We are only doing a half hour slot, but it still takes up the whole evening, and off course I will have to take the band kit and give a couple of members a lift. We will not be doing anything too taxing, but this job came in very late so quite a few members are already committed to other activities, still we should be able to give them an entertaining half hour with a few songs to sing along to.
Then on Sunday it all gets a bit more serious. CSB are playing at the Colchester area round of the BASWE National Wind band Festival. I shall be playing Bass Trombone for this, I am glad to be getting the trombone out, but am still surprised at how little I get to play. It is always an odd feeling when you look around the band and see everyone else blowing their hearts out while you are still counting bars rest. Of course with a Bass Trombone there is always an impact when we do come in, especially if it's a ff fzf.
One orchestral conductor I had stopped the orchestra to point out to the violins that the Bass Trombone had a dynamic that no other orchestral instrument possessed, "Obliterato".
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