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Re: Let's make barbershop!

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From: John Edmonds
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 05:07
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Ray Ubinger (rcu@acpub.duke.edu) wrote:

: Me:  bass or baritone.  You:  bass (if I'm baritone), baritone (if I'm 
: bass), lead, or tenor--times three.

: I love the rich, dense blend of closely harmonized voices a cappella.  
: And I wonder aloud:  Might I really find three other guys around here
: to form a barbershop quartet with, for the sake of our own entertainment?
: (Primarily for that sake, that is--if people liked us enough to throw
: money, I wouldn't duck.)  If not a traditional barbershop quartet, then 
: perhaps something with mixed men's and women's voices?  I guess even a 
: little less or more than four-person membership would be possible in 
: that case (depending on the availability of sheet music).

: I carry a tune strongly, harmonize well, play decent (rehearsal) piano,
: and have outstanding general musicianship.  I warn you, though, that I 
: have no experience accessing vocal sheet music of the barbershop kind.

: HOWEVER, I _am_ well prepared to handle fame.


: Ray Ubinger, Durham
: rcu@acpub.duke.edu


* I really would like to help you and have in fact started my own choir  
  this fall, but, you see, we are in two different places.  I really miss 
  singing barbershop and would love to sing bass/baritone in one again.
  Good-luck!
					John Edmonds, Edmonton, Alberta
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