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Yes, I've not actively watched it since the mid-70s for the simple reason that it is not my preferred musical style - I have no interest in it. I also said that we're all different and if it floats your boat, then fine. I do know quite a few people who are having watch parties: they obviously enjoy it. I do think it needs a re-think as the cost of hosting it has become such that only affluent countries can afford to host it.

I'm thinking of stringing one of my basses with flats. Interesting, in effect most decent cello strings are flat wound these days - thankfully (apart from really cheap strings) the days of cheese wire type strings have gone... I was talking about restringing my main cello with my teacher yesterday. One option that came up was Larsen Arioso Magnacore - at about £230 a set they're cheaper than my current strings... The current strings, apart from the A which I replaced about 3 years ago, have been on for 8 years....

It has a bit of a rep as well.... I avoid it

Sorry for the mental block yesterday!

I'm not sure Woodwind Exchange is still going? Web site seems to have vanished. Possibly Hanson's in Yorkshire and Curly Woodwind in Liverpool. There's a place in Stoke-on-Trent whose name currently escapes me as well

Oh dear.... I'll be honest, I'm not a Eurovision fan - it's not recent, goes back to the 1970s... Some people I know are quite obsessed with it and will be having a 'watch party' for it... I didn't make myself popular when I said I didn't like it... We're all different, so I'm fine if it floats your boat.

Skiing is so much easier now with modern carving skis - unlike the really hard work straight skis I learnt on in the 80s

It's what happens when assorted pieces of timber and an old leather Chesterfield go through a matter transporter and the Schrödinger Compensator goes wrong...

On cello rather than bass...

Yes - it's part of the Tabley House estate

Tabley? I've sung many times with a chamber choir in the chapel there- slightly different gig! I worked near Knutsford for nearly 40 years

We meet once a month on a Sunday afternoon for 3 hours. If we're all there, there's 8 of us. For some weird reason I seem to run it... so I can't really duck out...

I would have gone, unfortunately it clashed with my sax ensemble's monthly meet.

As an experienced (classical) singer, age per se is not a limitation to being able to sing tenor when older (there are some limitations with counter tenor though). The main reason people struggle when older to sing the higher notes is poor technique meaning they're using way too much effort to sing. If a singer is basically indulging in 'tuned shouting' then their voice will tire quickly and they risk damaging the voice as well.

I am sure that the OP here is far better than my ex-MP....

As someone that lives in the Border Marches - the Welsh border is one mile away - there is as someone has already noted a big challenge travelling north/south in Wales, or Wales adjacent counties, due to the lack of a fast road/train route.

Several terms in use - ground bass or ostinato (cellists tend to dislike the Pachelbel canon beloved of weddings as they repeat the same few notes 4,000 times...)

Oddly enough, I randomly watched that last night. Whilst I lack experience performing with my bass, a lot of what he says is common to hi-fi, something which I have a lot of experience with

As someone who is a serious hi-fi nut, who has done some rock climbing, and has done some sailing, incorrect coiling of cables, ropes etc is very annoying

OK, we're getting nearer with the 6 string.... latest pics are in. Top is walnut, yew accent layer and sycamore body; fingerboard is wenge.

This thread has reminded me that my cello teacher was talking about some strings recently as an alternative to what I'm currently using... just on £300 for a set... although tbf that's about the same price as what I'm currently using....

This thread has reminded me that my cello teacher was talking about some strings recently as an alternative to what I'm currently using... just on £300 for a set... although tbf that's about the same price as what I'm currently using....

I've not yet played with the type of bands being discussed here. All my experience is very different with various choirs, orchestras, wind bands.... The advantage of those is that rehearsals are usually a fixed evening each week, usually for about 2 hours (one did rehearse Sunday afternoons) and gigs (concerts) are known months - as much as 2 years - ahead. Typical pattern is 8 - 10 rehearsals, then a concert. Repeat. I worked in IT and I did have a period of being on-call, but that was only for a few years.

I've had something like it this week with photography chemistry. I wanted to try a particular developer. Where I buy most of my darkroom stuff was showing it as 'out of stock'. I could have ordered through Amazon, but they're very expensive for this stuff. I chose a well-known photography shop, but not one of the box box shifters. It was 'in stock' on their system, so I ordered it on 11th April... I e-mailed last week chasing where it was, no reply. Tried to ring them Saturday - 'mail order' not staffed at weekends... Rang Monday. It's out-of-stock he said. I said your web site said it was 'in stock'. Oh, it might have been when you ordered it, but by time of order fulfilment, it may have been out-of-stock... No, that means it was out-of-stock, or, you don't update your stock levels as you sell through the day... Tying online and shop orders to stock levels on the web site is basic e-commerce these days. What I was told is either incompetence or lies. No known date for stock, so I've gone with an alternative. A complaint will be winging its way in due course as I won't accept this rubbish anymore. Companies need telling and customers should vote with feet and wallets and take business elsewhere.

One of the problems with bass is the wavelength of the notes. The A on the 2nd fret of the G string is 110Hz, so wavelength of around 3m and the open A string around 6m. That's going to be a problem in most pub sized venues