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Subject: My Barbershop Experience

Author:
Rodders

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Date Posted: 12:46:31 02/23/01 Fri

Fellow musicians,

(Thanks Ken for giving us another voice)

I'll try and keep this short(ish) - there's so much to say.

On being introduced to this hobby, some five years ago now, I confess it was my dream to be able to sing in a quartet and produce a sound that was acceptable and even entertaining.

Chorus singing has proved to be the means by which I have achieved this, to a small degree admittedly and to an audience of only three (or more often two)- but I feel that after five years of work I have achieved something.

I use the term work deliberately because I feel it has taken me a lot of effort, on and off the risers in all sorts of ways to get here but it has been an enjoyable and rewarding journey.

Of course, I am under no illusions about how little I know of the craft of singing and how much more work it would take to be "a proper quartet singer" but I am chuffed to bits with the progress I have made since sqeaking and croaking on the risers for the first time.

Main factors?
The quality of instruction/advice and encouragement from our own music team.
Club training weekends.
2 Harmony colleges.
Fellowship and laughter at club nights.
The tremendous satisfaction in singing in a quartet(trio).

I took the decision after last convention not to go to Glasgow as I thought that the effort and expense of the previous two conventions were repayed by rather impersonal "BABS member unfriendly" events. Maybe I'll change my mind this year.

What has been your experience of barbershop at our club? and what can we do to make it richer/better?

Rodders

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Re: My Barbershop Experience	Hilts	14:39:16 02/28/01 Wed