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Advantages: Original ideas, doesn't take too long to read Disadvantages: Quite dark in terms of tone and mood
This is the first piece of work I have read which has been written by Jackie Kay, and i found that the plot and ideas in 'Trumpet' were so original that I would have no idea what to expect if i were to pick up another novel or poem of hers - I'm not sure if this is a good or a bad thing..
Firstly, a main summary of the novel itself . The plot is based on a famous saxophone player named Joss Moody, who has recently passed away, much to the grief of his wife and son. There is a major twist, though - Joss is not the person everyone thought he was. He was hiding a major secret about himself from the rest of the world (one which I won't reveal in my review).
The novel deals with the aftermath of his death - the first part is narrated by his wife, who is trying to deal with home life. Her part in the novel covers flashbacks to when she ...
Advantages: Good quality and always reliably in tune. Disadvantages: Cost a bit more than similar student trumpets.
Yamaha have been making musical instruments for over one hundred years and I have always found their brass instruments to be reliably in tune, which is not always the case with other student trumpets.
Since about 1980, they have always had a student instrument priced between £250 and £300. The 2320 model was originally the only one in this price range. It is a well made instrument with quite good valves, and hard wearing gold colour lacquer finish. It has a mobile third valve slide for fine-tuning the low D and C#. As prices of instruments were rising, and the 2320 went over the £300 mark, they introduced a cheaper trumpet into the UK.
The first of these was the T100S This is a silver plated trumpet, with a smaller bore than the 2320, making it suitable for younger players. The valves are reasonable, so long as they are ...
johnalderton 01.03.2001
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Advantages: Water and ships everywhere! Disadvantages: The weather is not always nice.
the background, a young violinist was playing classical music two cafés away. A woman at the table next to me said to her friend, ?This reminds me of Venice.? The architect Alexis de Châteauneuf who designed the arcades in 1844 would have been pleased because that had just been his intention.
From the arcades it?s just a stone?s throw to the Hanse-Viertel, a mall with elegant and expensive shops, cafés and restaurants. The pavement inside is covered with clinker-bricks which are so well polished that I was afraid of slithering, I looked at where I was putting my feet as often as at the shop windows. As shopping is not my thing, I just walked through.
My next destination was the Hummel Denkmal, the monument for the man who?s responsible for the typical Hamburg greeting of ?Hummel, Hummel? [?u? pronounced like ?oo? in ?book?] to which the correct ...
