Australian Concert Bands

Hi all,

South Pacific Concert Band is a band that is growing and moving forward and we would welcome new players on any instrument to our ranks. We particularly would love to hear from flute, oboe and clarinet players as well as trombone and tuba players.

Rehearsals are Wednesday evenings at 7:30 and are held at Picnic Point. We were placed a close 2nd in the recnet state championships in Open C grade and are looking to compete in the nationals in Brisbane.

Please give me a call on 90if you are oir know of anyone interested in joing our band.

Sorry my computer went all funny. My number is 0410 411 047.

Thanks. Lloyd

Hey Cliffy

If you find any spare oboe players, can we have one?!

If you need another trumpet for nats in Brisbane, give me a yell! Our band isnt going.

Cheers

Ben

Hey Ben,

Thanks for the offer. We have not fully decided on the nationals yet but would like to go. The test piece they have chosen is very hard so that is the first obstacle to look at and then there is the timing of the contest next year.

Yes Oboe players seem to be very few and far between.

By the way, congratulations on your bands win at the states. I didn't get to hear you as we were on right after you but by all accounts your band sounded great. I guess we will have to work even harder next time

Hey Cliffy

It was a close contest! I heard your own choice at state and personally thought that you guys had it!

Lets hope the own choice for nats next year is a bit better than Kelly from this years state. Did you guys have the problem where the score wasnt correctly marked, and you tended to find errors as you played it? I know in ours, in one section, the 2nd trumpet score had a completely different key signature to the rest of the trumpet section!

Hey, that sounds like some of my arrangements. When I sit down and do them too quick, I sometimes miss a key signature and it sounds frightful when the band first plays it. I did this concert band arrangement of Time To Say Goodbye and forgot to alter the oboe part and the last note the band was playing a G concert and he was playing G sharp concert... dreadful..

LOL. If that was our band it woulnt be a problem, as we dont have an oboe!!

This piece of music came with 2 A4 pages of corrections! Publishers must have been a bit

When you have to pay so much for a pro arrangement you think it should be right. Me? I use Home and Away as an excuse because I'm generally sitting on the lounge with my laptop doing arrangements when that show is on.

Hornist wrote:Hey, that sounds like some of my arrangements. When I sit down and do them too quick, I sometimes miss a key signature and it sounds frightful when the band first plays it. I did this concert band arrangement of Time To Say Goodbye and forgot to alter the oboe part and the last note the band was playing a G concert and he was playing G sharp concert... dreadful..

Yes I remember playing the above mentioned piece with the wrong key for the Oboe. It did sound rather special I recall.

It certainly made for an interesting first read! I mean, we didnt think we played it 'that' badly!!!

bensimon wrote:Hey Cliffy

It was a close contest! I heard your own choice at state and personally thought that you guys had it!

Lets hope the own choice for nats next year is a bit better than Kelly from this years state. Did you guys have the problem where the score wasnt correctly marked, and you tended to find errors as you played it? I know in ours, in one section, the 2nd trumpet score had a completely different key signature to the rest of the trumpet section!

Hey Ben,

Yep we had all those problems. I sat down one Saturday and took most of the day to repair the score and correct all the parts according to the erata sheet and yet we still found problems as rehearsals went on. Apparently when Kelly was last used as the test for the states in 1992 there was only one page of erata but since then the amount of mistakes has grown (and still growing)!!

I also don't understand why Brolga Music do not publish their eupho part in treble clef like all the main publishers from overseas do. All 4 of our eupho/bari players read treble clef and not bass clef so we had to transpose their part using finale.

The other night I ran through next years nationals test with one of the B grade bands in Sydney just for a sight read and also found some problems there. All the cues in the eupho part that were marked on the score were not marked on the eupho part and here I was arguing with the eupho player asking him why he is not playing the cues

bensimon wrote:LOL. If that was our band it woulnt be a problem, as we dont have an oboe!!

This piece of music came with 2 A4 pages of corrections! Publishers must have been a bit

Our band has an oboe player. The only problem is that she is also our bassoon player!! So it did not help when the middle of Kelly features an oboe and bassoon duet. I tried to get her to play both instruments at once but...... Being double reed insts that would mean she would have had 4 reeds in here mouth we settled for a clarinet to play the oboe solo!!!

LOL. We didnt have either, so i did the oboe part on trumpet, and we had a euph play the basoon part

Personally, i thought it sounded better with trumpet / euph. One band did it with oboe / bassoon, and i didnt think it sounded as good!

bensimon wrote:Personally, i thought it sounded better with trumpet / euph. One band did it with oboe / bassoon, and i didnt think it sounded as good!

Thats because that bands oboe and bassoon were not quite in tune with each other.

bensimon wrote:LOL. We didnt have either, so i did the oboe part on trumpet, and we had a euph play the basoon part

Personally, i thought it sounded better with trumpet / euph. One band did it with oboe / bassoon, and i didnt think it sounded as good!

I think Oboe and bassoon are two of the most beautiful instruments but they are also among the hardest so I guess they need to be played really well to sound good

Euphoniums always sound good as they tend to play themselves