Yeah, I once saw him do Just One Cornetto at the Nags Head in Stockton.
Me . i play Soprano cornet started when i was 11, 56 years ago
Yeah, worked in a pizzeria there on the side. His Mrs was a bouncer at Steelworks club too and ran the bingo.
Cool. Like the attic. His mrs works with mine so if I manage to get back to Confolens on a Friday lunchtime we have lunch together.
If you do go and see him, he’d be more than welcoming but you be better saying le Mari de Madame Bruinaud from Pierre et Marie Curie school, because I doubt he knows my second name. It’s me mrs who has all the fame round here and I’m just le mari de.
He did an expo last weekend to celebrate ten years in business.
From Hartlepool wasn't he Nick ?
I’ve got a Gigli too. He could certainly belt out an aria.
Hi Clive
My lad got me the Audio Technica LP AT 120 USB for xmas
I dug out my 33s from the garage and linked up the deck to my currrent JVC mini hifi system and the sound quality is awesome ! Check out the specs (they will be in english somewhere if you search) but this model seems to meet your requirements. I have a couple of hundred 78s in the shed too which are waiting to be played. I used to play them on an old wind-up machine some thirty years ago ! I have a priceless Gigli in there somewhere too ! I still can't believe the superiority of the 33 rpm quality over the CD equivalent. Needless to say I now trawl through he record sections of the bric a bracs etc for new material.
Hi Clive,
Yes, I think most of us good in any musical sphere really. My musical tastes are curiously clear - Opera and Jazz, far more than 'pop' although I can enjoy the odd one or two, but never as 'my favorites' in front of the other categories. Quite like show music though - 'I had a dream' from Les Miserables for example.
Norman,
Love all of those and also could have added a lot more.
Clive
Peter,
Oh yes, Werther has some good stuff in it. And I'm with you about The Death of Isolde. I've many favourite arias, as I expect you have. One that's haunted me recently is a baritone one from Lortzings "Undine", but the title of it escapes me just now. I've a wonderful rendering of it by Heinrich Schlussnus (? spelling).
My Goldring deck for LPs and 78s has died. Someone has offered me a much better Goldring one for a reasonable price, but I've yet to find out what I do about an amp and speakers for it. Decks that play 78s are not hard to come by, but I need one with an infinitely variable speed adjuster for my early 78s which are far from that - anything from the late 60s to nearly 90 rpm some of them. I need to be able also to adjust the weight the pickup easily and to insert different styli for different groove widths.
Clive
John,
I don't think I've a recording of David of the White Rock. We used to sing it at my school, I play it on the piano from my copy of the (1933, I think) Daily Express Community Song Book, and I've heard it sung on wireless - more often by Welsh choirs than anyone else. Who does it with a soprano cornet part?
Be surprised if my list is recognised by many but here goes.
Baby I Need Your Loving. The Four Tops
Give Your Baby A Standing Ovation. The Dells
That Other Place. Wade Flemons
agree with all those who said three is an impossible choice;
Today, Janice Joplin "Me and Bobby Magee"
Boris Vian, "Le deserteur"
L. Cohen, "The Partisan"
Tomorrow, Billie Holiday "My Man"
Alabama 5, "Ain't goin' to Goa"
Jean Ferrat, "Ma Mome"
and so on and so on and so on. So many good songs out there!!!
Clive i have played your first two, David of the white rock has a lovely Soprano cornet part may still have it somewhere i believe its old Welsh
La Califa by Ennio Morricone played bt Perter Roberts Soprano cornet
Resergam Eric Ball played by Manchester CWS
Bown Eyed Handsome Man Buddy Holly
White Rabbit Jefferson Airplane
Plus many already on here the list is endless
Difficult to pick just three, but these are doing it for me right now.
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Riviera Paradise Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7feEjTsxtg&index=49&list=FLVfPKCpYkytcnV7TPvJFlnw
Eric Clapton - Third Degree Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEBYYCa0gMc&index=24&list=FLVfPKCpYkytcnV7TPvJFlnw
DerekTrucks/SusanTedeschi Band - Midnight in Harlem Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqjD4oinpJA
Addicted to Guitar players and these 3 are hard to beat
Pencil Thin Moustache. Jimmy Buffet
Closing Time Tom Waits
Mr Bojangles. Jerry Jeff Walker
bohemian rhapsody - queen
born in the usa - bruce springsteen
500 miles - the proclaimers
my least favourite 3
I've dozens of favourite tunes, but first three to spring to mind are:
The so-called Siciliana from Cavelleria Rusticana (O Lola, c'hai di latti la cammisa - Oh Lola, white as the flowers of the briar);
David of the White Rock (prob. "trad", can't find my copy of it immediately.)
Chanson Indoue (Song of the Hindu Merchant from Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko)
Hi Nick, I'm just getting back into fiddling with instruments again as I'm retired now and hoping to avoid doing any more heavy-duty building or renovation work; just a bit of pottering in my den/lutherie/attic.
I have contact with a few luthiers, most of whom take it more seriously than I do, but it's interesting to see what other people are up to. I just googled your friend (BTW, isn't that an odd term: I just googled you…)?? Anyway, he seems to specialise in such beasties as those using the 7th fret mode of tuning. I can play a mandolin but this new fangled 10 string creation of mine is new territory, especially chord wise.
I'll pop in for a cuppa and a chat next time I'm down his way.
