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Old 3rd December 2008, 18:05
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Originally Posted by Sprocket View Post
It's a pity the job wasn't given to Beecham rather than Beeching. An orchestral conductor would have understood that the piccolo, though rarely used, is an essential part of the orchestra, and that you don't weigh in all the trombones for scrap just because you're doing string quartets this week.
But if you are doing string quartets you dont keep paying the wages of a dozen musicians when eight of them will have nothing to do
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