Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I know, but it's really NOT funny, and apparently definitely not a joke. Times have seriously changed since we were there Matthew.

I don't understand how the school can suddenly be so strapped for cash. It is not a poor school. Can someone enlighten me?!

totally support Great Plum and Hendrik, I am saddened that a current member of staff can so easily brush aside the 'ethos' of CH. the proposals being suggested are very worrying. I suggest better investment and expenditure, rather than gradually undermining important principals that CH has stood for...

CH have quite a lousey (ho hum) reputation at HDC over it's various dealings. not the best advertisement of CH in the local community!

I have a relation (don't want to land them in any trouble!) who's a housing officer for Horsham District Council, and I'm reliably informed CH didn't get as much money as they hoped by selling off the gym etc, as a % of it had to be social housing, so denting CHs finances. I believe CH can be rather...

b flat tenor euphonium? I never got the clef thing with euphoniums, I used to always nick the euphonium bass clef parts, bassoon arrangements were so boring. offbeat anyone?!

a habit I've continued to this day in the bands I now play in!

I need the vodkas before going to a dentist :cry: as a trombonist perhaps you could explain to me why there's a valve and slide trombone? isn't the slide one enough? I remember one of the trombonists in the CH band having a valve trombone (even though he was the euphonium player). mind you, slide tr...

just looking up vibrato, and found this (bit irrelevant, but never mind!) Arthur Pryor was in every sense a 'phenomenon'. From 1895 to 1903 he was trombone soloist and assistant conductor of the famous Sousa Band. Pryor was a musician as well as a technician. Along with his phenomenal tonguing abili...

my brother's a brass player, and I remember him saying vibrato was commonly used on the cornet and euphonium, but not the trumpet given the already shrill notes being played. brass bands tend to use a very fast vibrato, whereas for e.g. a saxophone section in a big band would use a slower vibrato (b...

Vibrato is usually used inappropriately, and by players trying to cover up poor technique. :roll: ....and by brass bands. Although players in brass bands often have an excellent technique, I find the constant use of vibrato very off-putting. excellent technique doesn't include playing vibrato when ...

Vibrato is a relatively modern trend in classical music, introduced widely in the 1900s. Music from the Baroque to the Romantic era (roughly 1650-1900) is frequently played with vibrato by modern performers, although at the time it was composed, vibrato was used only as a type of ornament. Vibrato i...

I was never a singer, indeed always failed the oral tests in music exams, but the same also applies to instrumentalists. My teacher at the Guildhall went spare when I introduced vibrato at the wrong moment in a piece! Although doing vibrato on a bassoon is quite tricky anyway (lip or diaphragm?). Vi...

he used to wear terrible bow ties ...

Many of the brewers from King and Barnes went and formed their own brewery near the station, naming it Hepworth Brewery. They took many of the beers with them, but renamed them, so as not to be sued. Good beers to try are Iron Horse, Pullmans, and the traditional Sussex. Whenever I go back to visit ...

Great shame when King and Barnes stopped, Horsham pubs will never be quite the same. Nor the town now that the brewery has been replaced by awful postmodern flats. There is a great beer shop though - Beer Essentials, run by an ex-King and Barnes man. Useful info for all you current Blues?!!!