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Name: Clive Smale
From: Nelson New Zealand
Name: Clive Smale
From: Nelson New Zealand
Comments:
I discovered this site by pure luck. As a former SA bandsmen it has brought me much enjoyment & many happy memories of my time as Soprano Cornet player in Watford Citadel band during the late 50’s, early 60’s. I now live in New Zealand and have recently picked up the cornet after a break from banding of over 40 years. To my surprise I can still manage a tune, therefore I have joined one of our local bands playing Solo Cornet. We will see how long the ‘puff’ lasts. Keep up the good work...great site. Clive Smale.
I discovered this site by pure luck. As a former SA bandsmen it has brought me much enjoyment & many happy memories of my time as Soprano Cornet player in Watford Citadel band during the late 50’s, early 60’s. I now live in New Zealand and have recently picked up the cornet after a break from banding of over 40 years. To my surprise I can still manage a tune, therefore I have joined one of our local bands playing Solo Cornet. We will see how long the ‘puff’ lasts. Keep up the good work...great site. Clive Smale.
Added: July 22, 2012
Name: Nigel Keay
From: Paris France
Greetings, it’s been fascinating to discover this site and listen to the music. My grandfather was a band-master of the Woodville (NZ) Salvation Army Band, and my father also a life-long member of the Salvation Army involved with both band and songsters. I remember playing cornet in a junior SA band in Napier where I also began learning the violin. At least until my teenage years this was the music I was surrounded by, and which provided such a great opportunity to gain experience playing in an ensemble at an early age. Eventually my interest in the violin took over so I shifted to youth orchestras, and that later on led to becoming a composer. I arrived on this site looking for information about a Salvation Army Congress that would it appears have been held in 1959 or 1961; my memory is that I performed a short item on recorder (my very first instrument) in the Wellington Town Hall as part of a Congress event that was held there (my very first public performance).