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Humour
Brass Band Humour
General Music Humour
Brassy Gallery
Brass Band Humour
"Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away".
Sir Thomas Beecham
Adjudicators' Remarks and Other Odd Utterances
Advantages of being an Eb Soprano Player
The Archetypal Brass Band
Band Anagrams
Band Definitions
Band Excuse List
Band Instrument Jokes
Band Member's Prayer
Band Players as Food Items
Band Room Anecdotes
Bandsman's Prayer - Alcoholic
Bar Lines
Baton Problems
Book of Banding Anecdotes
Brass Band Adjudicators
Brass band standard audition
Brass Band Characters
Brass band drug scandal
Change of Instrumentation - 2000 National Finals
Collective Nouns for Brass Band Instrumentalists
Concert Disasters And Other Stories
Crazy Awards
Electronic Fingering Attachment
Finius P Cockwinkles Chutney Works Band
From humble beginnings
Golden Rules For Ensemble Playing
Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy
- entry on Brass Bands + discussion forum
Hosaphone Headquarters
How To Organize A Brass Band
- an extract from an 1875 guide
Human Brass Music
Humour
International All Star Band
Infractions
Instrument Colloquialisms
Irish Blessing
- serious: a beautiful sentiment
Is it the call I'm seeking!
- a musician's reflections on a lifetime of reacting to the call of bugles
Learning the trombone
Lock and Weir Pavement Orchestra
Myths and Legends
- City of Stoke Brass
Official Band Dictionary
- for marching band and drum corps
The Ophicleide
Pictures Gallery
- Unusual and Brassy
Rehearsal Problem-Solving Flowchart
- by Carol Wills
Rules for Band Practice
- from an old journal
Rules of Behaviour
Scientists Pucker Up To World Of Top Brass
Signs You've Been In Band Too Long
Smokers' delight
Ten Things You'll Never Hear Your Conductor Say
Trombone Legislation
Trombonists and Trumpet Players
Trombonists' Guide to Musical Notation
Tuba Snippets
Ways to improve band
Ways to Know if You've Been in Band too Long
- marching band
World's Smallest Trombone
You Might Be A Contrabass Maniac If:
General Music Humour
Air Lute: A Short Historical Perspective
Alto's Lament
Application to play orchestral trombone
Avril Ngaire Poisson and Europe
Band Player Horoscopes
Best of the Worst Country Music Song Titles
Bitcheril attitude suppressant
Brass Players Real Rules of Engagement/Behaviour
Cabaret/Broadway Definitions
Carmen - a translated synopsis
Cello Concerto
Choral Singer's Guide to Keeping the Conductor in Line
Classical Music Bloopers
A Disastrous Piano Recital
Eugene Ormandy Quotes
Explosive Trombone
- see also:
Man Slides His Trombone And Kills Musician
, and
Trombone of Contention
Faerie's Air and Death Waltz
- - -
alternative large (460K version)
Fascinating Aida
Flanders & Swann Online
Fractured Titles of Music
Gerard Hoffnung
Golden Rules For Ensemble Playing
Guide to the Orchestra
Haydn's Chopin Liszt at Vivaldi's
How to Cook a Conductor
How to Sing the Blues
Humour: A Serious Business
Hymns for Occupations
If my trumpet were a car, what make would it be?
International Session Orchestra
Keeping conductors in Line
Mathematics for Musicians
Misheard Lyrics and Song Parodies
Misprinted Music Library Catalogue Entries
MIT Instrument Jokes
MooMoo - from Edmund Spencer's "The Daerie Queen"
Murphy's Law Applies to Music
Music Humor Gifts
- The North American School of the Artsy and Somewhat Musically Inclined
Musical Anecdotes
Musical Definitions
Musical Instrument Jokes
Musical Malapropisms
Musical Progression
Musical Quotes
Musical Terms (1)
Musical Terms (2)
Musical Terms (3)
Musical Terms Commonly Misunderstood by Country & Western Musicians
Musical Top Ten Lists
Musical weapons of mass destruction
New Rules for the Conductor of a New Age
No Laughing Matter: The Viola Joke as Musician's Folklore
Obfuscated Christmas Carol Titles
Opera for the Culturally Illiterate
Opera Notes
Opera Roles
Operatic Dictionary
Orchestral Efficiency
A Paen to City Life
P.D.Q. Bach
Piano Humour
Politically Correct Musical Works
Program notes from an unidentified piano recital
Quiz for String Quartets
Quotations Of Leif Segerstam
Retiring Conductor
Richard Strauss' Rules for Conductors
Silence is golden
Simple Metronome Construction Kit
A Smoke-Free Carmen
Stories and Test Questions from Missouri Music Teachers
Ten Green Bottles
Test Yourself for Music Addiction
Texas Institute of (Music) Theory
- [archived version]
They've Got the Clap
Those 6 o'clock Staff Meetings
Tom Lehrer
Translations of Composers' Names
The True History Of Covent Garden
21st Century Tempo Markings and other Musical Atrocities
Types of Musical Instrument
Types of Player
Ugly Classical CD Covers
Viola Notes
Victor Borge
Waltzing Matilda
What is your Opera Index?
You Know You Are A Musical Geek If......
A Young Person's Guide to the Chorus
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