Good excuse!!!

First, Happy Easter!,

Just thought I must share this extraordinary story about something that happened to me this week. I had invited a couple of friends round to play some ensemble music ( Cafe Haus music and Klezmer) I had bought a while ago, and hadn't got round to playing.

I was really looking forward to the evening. I cooked a meal and our friends brought pudding and wine..

Well! we retired to the loft to play. The line up was piano, clarinet sax and bassoon. I was playing sax, and can safely say I have never played so badly in all my life. I was so out of tune that my mouthpiece was nearly hanging off the instrument, and the sound I was making was just awful!!. I was particularly embarrassed as the clarinetist was also a sax player, and this was the first time she had heard me play. I spent the evening apologising, and felt disappointed to say the least after looking forward to the evening so much.

As said in a previous post we played in church on Friday. I had a job getting the mouthpiece on my sax, and realised I had a very sticky and half dissolved mint (quite large!) stuck up the mouthpiece (!!!!!). I had taken my mouthpiece in my bag to Frankfurt to try some saxophones, and the mint was probably loose in my bag. Well at least the sax smells nice!