New musical discovery of the day
Dec. 8th, 2007 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fivemackWalking back from town, I bumped into ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
j4 on her way to sing carols in the craft-market opposite Trinity chapel; I wandered along, met the choir, discovered it contained pseudomonas and a number of other people that I vaguely recognised, and was convinced to help out by shaking a collecting tin. Indeed, two collecting tins.
Collecting tins, it emerges, make superb maracas; you get the drum-roll effect from shaking them side to side, various volumes of cymbal-like clash by shaking them up and down, and since there are slots in the base for your thumbs, you can slam them together quite hard to get a different range of percussive noises without risk of crushed thumb. 'Wassail, wassail' and 'Rudolf the Red-Nosed Raindeer' are particularly amenable to percussion accompaniment.
A really rather good four-part choir accompanied by a dancing lunatic playing percussion parts on the collecting tins turns out to make quite a lot of money; I suspect at least a hundred pounds ended up in the maracas by the time they stopped singing at 3:15, and it'll all go to the local childrens' hospice. After tea and treacle tart in Tatties, my fingers defrosted without further issue.
j4 on her way to sing carols in the craft-market opposite Trinity chapel; I wandered along, met the choir, discovered it contained pseudomonas and a number of other people that I vaguely recognised, and was convinced to help out by shaking a collecting tin. Indeed, two collecting tins.Collecting tins, it emerges, make superb maracas; you get the drum-roll effect from shaking them side to side, various volumes of cymbal-like clash by shaking them up and down, and since there are slots in the base for your thumbs, you can slam them together quite hard to get a different range of percussive noises without risk of crushed thumb. 'Wassail, wassail' and 'Rudolf the Red-Nosed Raindeer' are particularly amenable to percussion accompaniment.
A really rather good four-part choir accompanied by a dancing lunatic playing percussion parts on the collecting tins turns out to make quite a lot of money; I suspect at least a hundred pounds ended up in the maracas by the time they stopped singing at 3:15, and it'll all go to the local childrens' hospice. After tea and treacle tart in Tatties, my fingers defrosted without further issue.
