Huntingdonshire Music School Association

Spotted in The Metro (free paper) on the commute this morning:

Germans Wee in Brass Instruments

Thursday, May 7, 2009

A drinker is bold as brass as he spends a penny - into a tenor horn.
The unusual urinals at a pub in Freiburg, south Germany, were put in by landlord Martin Hartmann.

‘Most people see the funny side but we’ve had a few complaints from musicians,’ he said

Some of us are old enough to remember some of the fine polished brass in management urinals but they were never like this! You have to feel sorry for the instruments. Not that they aren’t being put to use but it does seem a shame to spend the end of your days being the butt of this sort of treatment. I suppose it’s lucky there weren’t any spare tubas lying around.

Probably time to start thinking of some appropriate musical terms or expressions or indeed time signatures ... ‘P-major’ springs to mind and ‘pp’ has a whole new meaning!