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My “definitive” guide to the Sovereign cornet
(This article was originally published on my old blog in 2012. It has been revised slightly and republished here. Many of the links are dead. I will try to find live links to the articles soon.) Introduction Since its launch in 1974, the Sovereign cornet has been the benchmark for all brass band cornets, but…
Some famous cornetists of the music hall era.
There was a time when very few people played the trumpet and the cornet ruled the brass section. This ended in the early 30’s when dance band cornet players started switching to trumpet and classical composers phased out writing separate cornet parts in favour of the Bb and C trumpets. If you went to a…
The Church of Scotland will cease to exist by 2040
(This article was originally written in April 2014 and is republished here from my previous blog. You will find a completely new section at the end of the original article which was written in march 2026). According to this article Church of Scotland membership has declined by at least 50,000 over the past three years (approx 17,000…
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