Does Bunbury have an orchestra?

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(Also, can just anyone start a Bunbury thread or do you have to be a Weighty Feminist? Apologies if so, I will retreat tugging my forelock.)

Someone mentioned the cornet. Can I bagsy the kettle drum?

@R0wantrees

I'm going to spend the afternoon practising persed lips as my first steps.

I had a try put on some gigantic brass instrument when I was at school but the teacher decided I'd never be able to get the lips right.

Try out

Can I play the guiro?

Orchestras need an audience as well. I'm very good at being an audience member, never clap in intermissions, don't fidget, applaud enthusiastically when it is warranted, but I absolutely hate opera, otherwise I happily sit through even the most difficult new pieces of music.

Could you lot watch yourself with those cymbals over there? There are lots of penises crawling the boards today and you know how sensitive they are to loud noises.

I'm not sure I can play an instrument but I'm much in need of a safe space to sit and cry today, can I sit here?

I played the flute as a kid, but if we're going for percussion, I'm bagseying the washboard and thimbles. Nice and lady-like too :)

I always wanted to play the drums. I reckon there's enough in a good orchestra for all us wannabes to have one each.

PopperUppleton

It will be a while before we start playing.

Popper, sit and have a chat, or just enjoy the company. It'll be a while before they sort all the instruments out.

I think I'd like to try the harp, even if it does seem frighteningly complex.

@PopperUppleton

I'm not sure I can play an instrument but I'm much in need of a safe space to sit and cry today, can I sit here?

Sit by me, just be with us, no need to do. You can have a go at folding the paper round my comb if your hands want to be busy.

Surely the harp is all about the player making elegant hand swoops, up up up and then down, etc. Not complex at all, no I am quite sure of that.
[grimace at my ignorance here]

@FlibbertyGiblets

Surely the harp is all about the player making elegant hand swoops, up up up and then down, etc. Not complex at all, no I am quite sure of that. [grimace at my ignorance here]

It's got pedals as well as strings....

WHAT?!

@PopperUppleton

I'm not sure I can play an instrument but I'm much in need of a safe space to sit and cry today, can I sit here?

You can sit and marvel at my glockenspieling skills, and I will cue you in to blow your nose at theatrical intervals

I can only echo Flibberty here WHAT! A harp has pedals!

I actually know a harpist, very elegant lady, exactly, does weddings (and funerals), but our kids are in the same class. I will now have to ask her next time I see her.

I can play the saxophone, but if we’re a percussion ensemble I’ve always wanted to try the hang drum...

@FlibbertyGiblets I know! I like a challenge though.

Maybe we could get Evelyn Glennie to come along and give a percussion workshop for all the keen glockenspielers?

[quote AssassinatedBeauty]@FlibbertyGiblets I know! I like a challenge though.

Maybe we could get Evelyn Glennie to come along and give a percussion workshop for all the keen glockenspielers?[/quote]
Yessssssss!! punches air

Evelyn Glennie playing James MacMillan's Veni Veni Emanuel with the NZ symphony orchestra was the first concert dp and I ever went to together.

#primaryschool

Tubular bells for me, please

I am all about ethereal and haunting bingbonging.