Sdeve said:
tac said:
Sdeve said:
Like the English with music, I don't know much about it, but I like the noise it makes.
Although I'm not English, I live here, and I'm quite put out - as they say here - to read your comment.
I suggest that you take a minute or so of your time to check out the number of English composers who did and still do, know something about music.
I'm lucky enough to live almost surrounded by a bunch of mighty cathedrals - Peterborough, Ely, Lincoln, and Norwich, all of which have massive choirs with world fame. Check out Elgar [heard of him?] Vaughan Williams, Michael Tippett and many others to see how iggerunt the English are about music...
tac
Oh my word, but there are some sensitive souls hereabouts. My statement was actually a quote (ish) from Sir Thomas Beecham, a man of note in British music. You do, however, illustrate the difference between US and UK humour, and in particular the complete failure of Americans in general to understand Irony. :grin:
The English may not like music but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
”” Sir Thomas Beecham Quoted in L Ayre The Wit of Music (1930).
P.S. I'm English and have been for over 64 years, and intend remaining so for many more.
I'm not American either, Sir, but I was born here, married to an Welsh wife, and served in the British Army for thirty-three years. I went to an extremely 'churchy' public school here in England, too, but having a voice like a piece of rope being pulled under a door prevented my joining the choir school. The fact that I'm also Jewish had a lot to do with it, too. :grin:
Sir Thomas Beecham was indeed a noteworthy wit, but was also renowned for being acerbic with it, too.
As for irony, well, I understand it as much as any Englishman, you can bet your boots, and perhaps the most ironic part of it is that you, an Englishman, are happy to come on a furrin forum like this and take the pee out of your fellow-countrymen.
Meanwhile, I'll go back to banging my two rocks together on the banks of the stream that runs past our mud hut in deepest Cambridgeshire - full of appreciation of the nice sharp 'clunks' they make.
It will take my mind off having to transcribe the rest of this page of Ottaviano Petrucci's 14th century Venetian notation into modern sol-fah...
tac
PS - I've never seen teeny Minié bullets, especially as they were designed from the onset to be around .58cal for the French, British and Americans who used them. The nearest thing would be a R.E.A.L bullet I guess, but I've never seen one in the calibre you seek in the UK. Guess your on your own here, after all, eh?