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I had a very late night
last night, talking music until the early hours with
an
old colleague I have not seen for a very long time .


Ah yes, an excellent way to spend an evening,
especially if some fine
reds and few ports are consumed. Then the reminiscing
becomes
embellishing ;-)


I have a bottle or two of Merlot 84, which I keep for
such
occasions.

Great. Open one to let it breathe a little and I'll be
straight over.

Welcome, TT, any time:-)

I *DO* really want to hear your toob gear but alas, Europe
is on the back burner for another year or two :-(


If
only it was that easy? I am very partial to Merlot.
Except once when I
passed through LAX and I asked for a Merlo(t) and the bar
staff corrected
me in a broad 'Ameriken' accent and said "No, it is a
Mer-Lot."

Ah that's Mer-Lot as in Job-Lot :-)

Yep.

with ice and lemon, and one of those plastic imitation
ice-cubes
that lights up when in liquid?

You forgot the plastic straw with the fancy twist in it and
one of those little umbrellas ;-)

I once had a girlfriend who was partial to a single malt
now
and again. She sometimes politely refused it when the
barman
put ice in the glass without asking her first. She got
blacklisted
from a very posh club in Chelsea, when the waiter asked,
"shall I add some water?" She took a sip and replied,
"I think you might have done that already!"

Lucky you. I'm not allowed to remember my girlfriends ;-)

The chap is a musicologist and teacher (guitar)
We discussed amongst other things the importance of key
signatures not only to the players (no one wants their
part
to be in seven sharps, C# major:-) but aso in the way
the
tune "sounds" Flat keys, Eb, Bb are often preferred for
jazz.

These are exactly the fine philsophical points of music
which
blossom after a glass or two of Merlot.

Mmmmmmm............... perhaps I would be better off
discussing "micing"
with your cat :-))


LOL. I have recently taken up the tenor saxophone. My
wife,
who knows I am a great Ellington fan, bought me a small
carved
figurine of a cat playing a sax. She gave it to me, and
said "It's
Cat Anderson" So be it! It was such a lovely gesture
that
I did not have the heart to tell her that Cat Anderson was
a
trumpet player:-)

I don't have a musical bone in my body :-( My closest claim
to being able to play anything was the four chords in "Smoke
on the Water" with an electric guitar ;-)

Cheers TT