Well I know it's been a long time, but here goes, lets get restarted.
I'm still conducting the Croydon Brass band, and we have had a few gigs, including two to celebrate our Centenary year. the last one was last month, and I was very encouraged in that most of the band that played were regular members coming along to rehearsals each week. When I took over back at the beginning of 2010 we had only four or five players at most rehearsal, now we regularly have have 11 or 12, that means that we have more than doubled our regular attendance. Which in turn means that we Can play some good challenging music and put on decent performances.
The Croydon Symphonic Band is still strong, however we have lost one of our bass players and one of our trombones, we have had some new members join so the numbers are more or less the same, but we are short on heavy brass. The change in Bass players has left me with a problem, the chap who has left played a Cervany BBb. ad the New Toy blended nicely in tone, the new player uses a Besson Sovereign, my CC just doesn't blend at all so I have been using new Little New Standard EEb which works perfectly, the problems is that I am just not using the CC at all. I am playing the EEb the Euph and the Trombone but the Mrs T and the New Toy seem to just be living in their cases.
Since I need the money to buy a new van I am planning to put the CC up for auction on e-bay, a great shame but I can't see a way round at the moment.
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