Liz Truss - the first 100 days....

[multitool]

 

[multitool]

.One of my favourite memories is playing trumpet in the school orchestra in secondary school.

I wasn't far off then

 

[icowden]

I wasn't far off then

I could definitely play a vuvuzela... Any tube shaped object really.

 

[stowie]

I had violin lessons as a child. It was dispiriting.

I played the violin and passed Grade 6 before giving it up. On occasion I still (unintentionally) made the noise of bow on wrapped strings.

I did try playing the trumpet once or twice. I succeeded in getting it to make a series of loud squeaky farting noises, which I could do anyway without the use of a musical instrument.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I played the violin and passed Grade 6 before giving it up. On occasion I still (unintentionally) made the noise of bow on wrapped strings.

I did try playing the trumpet once or twice. I succeeded in getting it to make a series of loud squeaky farting noises, which I could do anyway without the use of a musical instrument.

I played in youth orchestras and never heard a trumpeter pronounce the word embouchure properly despite going on and on about it. There must be something about the trumpet that makes it impossible to say.

 

[multitool]

Probably the thick rubbery lips

 

[icowden]

I played in youth orchestras and never heard a trumpeter pronounce the word embouchure properly despite going on and on about it.

I hadn't encountered the word until I took up the trumpet. My trumpet teacher pronounced it ombra-shore. It was only many years later that I learned that the word is actually embouchure (om-boo-shore).

 

[newfhouse]

I hadn't encountered the word until I took up the trumpet. My trumpet teacher pronounced it ombra-shore. It was only many years later that I learned that the word is actually embouchure (om-boo-shore).

My trumpet teacher, Mr Percy, said it as um-brochure. Wind instrument lessons were given in the cricket pavilion, well away from the main school.

 

[BoldonLad]

My trumpet teacher, Mr Percy, said it as um-brochure. Wind instrument lessons were given in the cricket pavilion, well away from the main school.

Your school had a cricket pavilion? Levelled up then were you?

 

[newfhouse]

Your school had a cricket pavilion? Levelled up then were you?

State secondary modern. Back then, pre-Thatcher, even ordinary schools had playing fields and sports facilities. And free instrument lessons too. And school libraries…

 

[qigong chimp]

And roofs.

 

[icowden]

My trumpet teacher, Mr Percy, said it as um-brochure. Wind instrument lessons were given in the cricket pavilion, well away from the main school.

Where were you taught? My trumpet teacher was also a Mr Percy..!

 

[newfhouse]

Where were you taught? My trumpet teacher was also a Mr Percy..!

Beverley School, as was.

 

[Ian H]

My trumpet teacher, Mr Percy, said it as um-brochure. Wind instrument lessons were given in the cricket pavilion, well away from the main school.

Embrocher is 'spit', but as in a skewer for spit-roasting rather than expectoration.

 

[multitool]

Embrocher is 'spit', but as in a skewer for spit-roasting rather than expectoration.

It's a verb. (to put on a spit)

Brochette is the noun. (a spit/skewer)