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ALL PICS: TOM WELLER TOM PICS: ALL Pianos and several other works give the list a pleasing depth. LITTLE CRACKER? MUSICAL ORDER Tromba has released the world’s first In a masterstroke of product design, you plastic cornet. Alex Stevens takes a look can see all the pieces on your screen at any one time. It’s a bold move from ABRSM’s head of digital learning Stuart s the market for plastic brass instruments continues Briner. ‘To get 100 buttons on there, you to grow, new instruments are beginning to appear in have to throw away everything you know Amanufacturers’ ranges. Tromba, the firm behind ‘the about web design,’ he says, and instead original plastic trumpet’ and a highly popular plastic trombone, of an overload of information, this has now brought out the world’s first plastic Bb cornet. unapologetic layout is actually inviting At first glance, this would appear to be a perfect fit: the and empowering. Click one of the search cornet is already often used for younger players unable to buttons and the circles flit across the reach far enough to easily play the trumpet, so a plastic cornet, screen into a new order, and some of catering for the beginner end of the market, must be a business them become highlighted. So, click no-brainer. Surely, there will be demand for this instrument in the ‘Movement’ button and the green line with all the other plastic instruments. circles, initially arranged alphabetically, Based on the same valve block as Tromba’s plastic trumpet, Ali Walker giving a demonstration zip into a new order, with the foot the instrument has top-sprung valves, adjustable tuning slide tappers (including ‘Mambo’ from West Useful perspective? Classical 100 in action Schools minister Nick Gibb, the driving force behind Classical 100 and first valve slide, and a trigger ring for the third valve slide, Side Story and Brahms’s Hungarian plus water keys in the usual places. All the mechanics you would Dance No.5) highlighted on the left and expect are present and correct, more than enough to teach the LEARN THE JUKEBOX the slowest (including Dido’s Lament certainly on course to being widely used, selected apply to the music. If you select ballet Wild Swans. You’ll know it basics. and Barber’s Adagio) on the right. If with more than 700 schools signing up the ‘Story telling’ view and then click as the wordless soprano solo that The attractions of plastic instruments are obvious, Thomas Lydon discovers that, contrary to expectations, you click the ‘Story telling’ button, in the first five days. on ‘Peter’s theme’, you get a paragraph accompanies an animated Lloyds TSB particularly for schools and music services. Durable and the circles rearrange themselves into a So far, so good. The list of 100 pieces on the historical context of Peter and advert and there would seem to be lightweight, their lower price makes them particularly useful 100 pieces is just right for Classical 100 narrative ranking, with works such as and the way they are ranked within the Wolf, and another paragraph on the an obvious requirement here to tell when buying in bulk. The instrument’s RRP in the UK is the ‘Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ and Peter’s searches have been put together with narrative potential of classical music. people something about the composer’s £149.99, with education rates available for orders of more than theme from Peter and the Wolf being eye-watering thoroughness, and the There’s no paragraph explaining why original intentions for the piece – what ten. As Tromba’s website says: ‘Half the price but twice the fun’. he ABRSM has pulled off I rolled my eyes along with everyone highlighted. resulting app is slick and addictive. Peter and the Wolf is in this category, is happening in the original ballet at The instrument is available in a range of finishes, which will something of a coup with its else, but I have to admit that I’m actually There are several ways of filtering The collaboration with Decca is a or of how the characters in this story this point. Instead, the Classic FM- certainly be enough to grab the attention of young players: TClassical 100 app. You have to hand a bit in love with this resource. One and ordering the content like this: triumph – having access to its catalogue have their own themes, or how they are driven content panders to the most silver, gold and black, plus two (quite spectacular, and slightly it to the digital learning team – given the hundred pieces sounds like a lot, but Movement; Story telling; Elements means that every interpretation is world portrayed by particular instruments. damaging stereotype of that station more expensive) metallic blue and red options. strangest of briefs earlier this year, and in when you see them all together on the (searchable by Duration, Dynamics, class, and it’s a real fist-pump moment If you click through to Elements/ and we get a synopsis of the plot of the By contrast, the standard case might find itself being collaboration with Decca and Classic FM, screen, each title sitting inside its own Pitch, Structure, Tempo, Texture and when you realise that they’ve included Structure/Pachelbel’s Canon, you Lloyds TSB ad. replaced quite quickly by a lightweight gig bag: while light have created something really exceptional little pale green circle, it begins to look Timbre); Instruments; Nationality; and Pavarotti’s legendary recording of get a paragraph on the historical The description of the resource on enough for young players to handle easily, its polystyrene in a small number of months. Who didn’t like just the right number. Essentially, Periods (of history). There’s a ‘Mood ‘Nessun dorma’. popularity of the work and a woolly ABRSM’s website states: ‘in time, a interior does not match the appeal of the instrument itself. And roll their eyes when schools minister Classical 100 is an interactive jukebox, changer’ button which allows you to definition of the term ‘structure’, but no range of downloadable resources will if you’re buying a new bag, this must offset the initial low cost. Nick Gibb announced at the 2015 Music offering carefully curated routes into select a playlist that gets progressively paragraph pointing out why the work is be made available.’ However, Abbotts As is becoming well known as the market develops, an Education Expo that he was championing 100 classical tracks from the Decca calmer or more energetic, and the ROOM FOR DEVELOPMENT? structurally interesting. Surely, if you’re is rather more circumspect, telling instant way to improve plastic instruments is to replace the Bright sparks: Tromba’s new plastic cornet a new list of 100 pieces of classical music catalogue. The list contains many of the lists change every time you move the It does feel like there’s a golden drawing attention to the structure of the MT: ‘We’ve taken the decision that at standard mouthpiece with a metal one; again, this is something that ‘every child should be familiar with usual suspects – Pachelbel’s Canon, the pointers on a sliding scale. There’s also opportunity here to develop what is work, teachers and students alike would the moment, as a resource in itself, to consider in the cost. In some schools, instruments may by the time they leave primary school’? 1812 Overture, ‘Nimrod’ and so on, but a random piece button. Each piece and currently essentially a jukebox further benefit from even the briefest analysis, everything is there. It gets everyone be shared while each player (and teacher) has his or her own Overall, the instrument has clear potential for schools and Just another misguided intervention from there is space to go beyond this, and each search term is accompanied with to make it into an accessible teaching pointing out that there’s a repeating going, and we’re very keen to see what mouthpiece – which can only add to the cost-effectiveness of music centres, particularly as large orders bring the cost down a rigour-obsessed Tory educationalist, the nature of the resource has meant a few paragraphs of text, provided by tool. The descriptions that accompany bassline and that above it there are the take up of it is. We’re encouraging these instruments in educational settings. The package also further. However, with metal cornets starting below £200, assumed some. ‘Ten pieces is not enough!’ that a range of periods and styles are Classic FM. the pieces and the search categories three lines that play the same music but teachers to let us know how they get on, includes a cleaning kit (certainly to be removed before any parents buying for one child might consider going straight for ran one mocking headline, alluding to the represented. Hildegard von Bingen’s O ABRSM’s director of strategic have been written for interested adults, starting at different times? and we’ll hang resources off it if there’s whole-class lessons) and a useful stand. a more traditional instrument. And, while not a viable option idea that the BBC had already done this – Euchari, Monteverdi’s Ave Maris Stella, de development, Lincoln Abbotts, stresses not children, and don’t give any clues Particularly odd is the treatment of an appetite.’ So, if you want official When it comes to the playing, it is not perfect, but is for schools, the second hand market, if you are prepared for and probably better, too. Falla’s Ritual Fire Dance, Steve Reich’s Six that the product’s strength is that it as to how the search terms you have Eliza Aria, from Elena Kats-Chernin’s resources, do let them know – or why certainly adequate for teaching beginners. There are some it, should not be discounted. While it has never been easier to ‘starts you off on a journey,’ offering a not create one yourself and tell us about intonation issues in the registers immediately above and pick up a pre-owned instrument to match your requirements, one-stop-shop resource for assemblies, it at [email protected]? below middle C and here, although it is good that there is a this pocket-sized package is certainly a useful addition to classroom lessons and instrumental proper trigger on the third valve slide, one might also wonder the market. MT “CLASSIC FM-DRIVEN CONTENT PANDERS TO THE lessons – no more rooting around in “WHEN YOU SEE THEM ALL TOGETHER ON THE SCREEN, Classical 100 is available to employees of primary whether players in these early stages of their development will MOST DAMAGING STEREOTYPE OF THAT STATION” cupboards for CDs or endless evenings IT BEGINS TO LOOK LIKE JUST THE RIGHT NUMBER” schools in England and is free of charge. Sign up at be usefully able to use it. In the higher registers it plays very trombainstruments.com researching appropriate repertoire. It’s www.Classical100.org nicely. www.korg.co.uk

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a pretty good imitation of a very low note ukulele. A ukulele ensemble with sounds RAISING THE GAME at this register suddenly sounds very rounded and much more serious! Al Summers looks into the returning fashion of the Improvements ukulele, and the promise it holds for new learners Aquila Nylgut strings are the best way of improving any ukulele. D’Addario also offer them under the brand name So popular that it only just manages local luthier’s new ukulele design. Nyltech, made in co-operation with to cram into the largest room of my Everyone gains! Aquila. In my experience a cheap ukulele tuition premises, the local ukulele club with these strings sounds far better was recently booked to perform at a Promising practicalities than many expensive instruments with prestigious civic ceremony. Like most It can be hard for private tutors to cheaper strings. Usually, intonation – such clubs, a strong community basis promote themselves. Music teachers that old bugbear – is also improved, a produces not only a mixture of ages, are rarely the type to blow their own blessing to a teacher leading a group But is it brass? Bollywood Brass Band and Hackney Colliery Band but attracts and nurtures abilities from trumpets (apart from the obvious!) so with the usual mixed bag of instruments. beginner to professional: an engagement this kind of work helps create awareness. And how often do we hear from adult Richard Davies of Cory Band leads the Llwydcoed Juniors Rachel Veitch-Straw of Brass Bands England at a workshop with Sheffield Music Hub ‘We tackle these issues both locally, that shows how far the ukulele has It also breaks down the frequently held players that the instrument, particularly in our home county of Rhondda Cynon BRASS AND BOLLYWOOD come. When I taught it some decades belief that music teachers are somehow in its soprano guise, is too small, the Taf, and wider, through the academy, Similarly, the Bollywood Brass Band offers ago (in the more traditional D6 tuning), so learned that we are unapproachable – fretboard being too cramped for as- encouraging greater engagement with a contemporary edge with its fusion of the very occasional student was while we might enjoy being held in some yet unskilled fingers? A wide-necked youth, increased participation in traditional brass with Indian instruments. considered eccentric – as no doubt was esteem, most of us like to be known as ukulele has been introduced recently by BRINGING BACK THE BRASS brass band music-making, and greater Far from the old cloth cap image, the the teacher (one willing to step outside ordinary folk rather than placed out of Mahalo. At first glance it does not look collaboration between brass players and ten-piece band offers workshops, talks the George Formby classics and offer up reach on an imaginary pedestal. much broader, but it’s astonishing what Having survived the closure of the pits and still hitting bands across the whole of Wales,’ she and performances to all key stages, and Bach or blues arrangements). On a more practical matter, one piece difference a few millimetres can make. the heights internationally, British brass banding still adds. Within three months of opening, includes dance and video projections. Particularly pleasing was that the of the musical spectrum that a ukulele Already fitted with Aquila strings and academy membership stood in excess It’s a long way from a dozen identical organisers felt it would be good to club can lack is low frequencies. The with a Nubone saddle, at under £40 faces an uncertain future. Rhian Morgan investigates of 100 children, with eight bands in the test piece performances of Judas combine their evening’s entertainment baritone ukulele extends a 7th below with a simple gig bag, these instruments county borough. This has now grown to Maccabeus, but these brass bands show with a showcase for local music-making. middle C (it’s more of a tenor range, will fill a need, making life easier for an 12, catering for a wide range of ages and one approach to bringing the genre into The widely appreciated knock-on effects but the tenor name has already been important and satisfying growth area in abilities. the 21st century. Meanwhile, at the other are considerable: raised confidence, allocated to a ukulele that is larger private music tuition: adult learners. here are few sounds more stirring communities and other bands and to end of the spectrum, the likes of Cory social gatherings, the change to improve in size) and though some invite an than that of a traditional brass share resources and expertise.’ Academy are still carrying the torch of learners’ musicality gently while interloper on double bass or bass guitar, Tband, marching buoyantly along, EAST-END STEELWORK one of the country’s best-loved musical advancing the profile and benefits of adding a bass ukulele to the group pays FRETS AND PICKS out of some dark industrial site. The pits Cory, while appealing to younger traditions. MT professional tuition. The professional dividends. Factory-made diminutive bass Following the dramatic success of RGT’s and the steel works may, for the most RAW TALENT IN WALES players, is very much in the style of fee for this occasion also confirmed a ukuleles are now available in either solid- ukulele exams, a Grade 4 option and part, be long gone – but their legacy still For those pupils living in areas with a the old brass band, attached to a pit www.bollywoodbrassband.co.uk value for live music and raised every body electric or electro-acoustic formats. companion Ukulele Playing Handbook have remains, both as a reminder of what has strong tradition and solid teaching, the or a steelworks. But in the East End www.coryband.com player’s game. The music was enjoyed It is also possible to convert a ¾ size been added. A Grade 5 Performance Award is gone, and as a foretaste of the future. grass can be very green indeed. But for of London, the Hackney Colliery Band www.hackneycollieryband.co.uk and we even managed to promote a guitar to a fretless bass, which produces also available, the extended syllabus another Brass Bands England, an umbrella others, the outlook is not quite so rosy. is, according to The Times, ‘reinventing example of increasing credibility for this association that is aiming to change the Andrew Jones, trumpeter and conductor, the brass-band format for the 21st NEW APPOINTMENTS AT ‘rediscovered’ instrument. face of brass bands, believes they have a paints a somewhat glum picture of his Also in the Rhondda is the world- century.’ Upon a similar subject, many guitar tutors Lower brass at Cory Academy BRASS BANDS ENGLAND have commented on my attempt in MT October beneficial effect on society as a whole. home territory of the Rhondda Valley in renowned Cory Band, which has been ‘Children are not so familiar with In August, Brass to boost respect between fretted and unfretted ‘Brass bands make music and in doing so south Wales. ‘On the one hand we have ranked as number one brass band in the acoustic instruments,’ says Steve Pretty Bands England

MATT CURTIS PHOTOGRAPHY worlds – especially in education. There was a create environments where people from two Welsh bands, Cory and Tredegar, the raw, basic talent is still in our kids, world for eight years in a row. Among of the band. ‘Everything has to be instant appointed Darren real buzz and strong enthusiasm at this year’s all walks of life can flourish and develop holding the numbers one and five spots but they are not getting the teaching them is flugelhorn soloist and Cory and the thought of practising for a few Lea and Vicky Lenton as liaison offi cers socially, educationally and artistically,’ in the world – while on the other, there they need. Academy tutor Helen Williams, who is months before you can play something Registry of Guitar Tutors Conference at London and Graham Sandersfi eld as operations College of Music on 27 September. says chairman Mike Kilroy. ‘We want to just aren’t any numbers coming though. ‘Schools are playing the numbers game all-too aware of the issues facing young recognisable doesn’t always appeal. The co-ordinator. Lea is principal cornet in the encourage, support and promote bands I left my job as a brass peri in Gwent two and the move is towards whole-class players. intense musicality of a lot of youngsters Teachers are often asked to recommend Jaguar Land Rover Band, and Lenton recently stocking fillers for Christmas. Footstools are to be outward-focused, to engage with years ago and without a shadow of doubt music teaching, which does offer She teaches at the Cory Academy, the is certainly still around and we’re trying played with the Waterbeach Band. Their benefits – but for instrumental teaching, youth outreach arm of the band. ‘We to give them a different understanding good, encouraging attention to good posture, roles, reporting to senior liaison offi ce Rachel but tuning forks are great: the batteries don’t it doesn’t work. A colleague of mine has recognise the issues facing all brass bands of the brass instrument. Most of our Veitch-Straw, will be to work with member fail, they are better for the ear than automatic recently been pushed into teaching four in the 21st century, the need to be relevant group are classically trained – we write bands to develop and strengthen their tuners and, in this age of electronic devices, “THE RAW TALENT IS STILL IN OUR KIDS, BUT THEY beginners on one drum kit in a half-hour and forward thinking, to engage with new out scores at the keyboard and some of organisations and fundraising ability. something this tactile is not only fun but lesson. Seven and a half minutes each and wider audiences, and to recruit new the education projects we have done have ARE NOT GETTING THE TEACHING THEY NEED” www.brassbandsengland.co.uk actually cool. isn’t going to achieve much.’ players into the brass band movement. really drawn people in.’ In the club: Al Summers’s ukulele group

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