Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

From the CH "official" website..!!

http://www.christs-hospital.org.uk/phot ... rylist.php

Is that really an oboe player wearing gloves whilst playing? I would have thought that was quite a challenge.....

I used to wear fingerless gloves on lunch parade when it was really cold, but never out for a formal event.

I tired to play the piccolo once with gloves - it can't be done!

It would sound woolly.

when they televise the Remembrance Day service on the BBC most of the army musicians are wearing gloves (not that you get oboes in army marching bands).

I used to wear fingerless gloves in winter at CH for lunch parade as it would be freezing. I tried wearing gloves with the band I now play in at the Frost Fair (held in December on the South Bank in London) and found it messed up how I held the bassoon, so froze instead (apt for a Frost Fair I suppose!).

is there any way of changing the photos on the CH site so that when you click on them they come up a bit bigger?

NBoticed that at least one RMS boy had his breeches down to about one handswidth from his shoes instead of just below the knee. A button grecian with his bands askew ..... There also seem to be both black and brown girdles - any significance?

Fings ain't wot they used to be!

some socks looked like they'd fallen down too.

am I sounding old now ...

eloisec wrote:some socks looked like they'd fallen down too.

am I sounding old now ...

Yes, dear!

wasn't really a question! more horrified at myself. must be the grand old age of 31 coming in a few weeks ...

It's called a rhetorical question.

Great Plum wrote:I tired to play the piccolo once with gloves - it can't be done!

You TIRED ?

Object Lesson: 'Playing your Piccolo with gloves on can lead to tiredness !'

(Not silk ones, by any chance, Matt ??)

I think I should give up posting!!

Great Plum wrote:I think I should give up posting!!

Why would you want to do that?? Do you want to stop giving JR a laugh or something?

*doesn't comment*