I bought a tuner.
Got out my horn.
Played a B flat.
After 15 minutes I realised that A# is Bflat and the panic left me.
Seniors Moment.

And Matt, a friend of mine with little musical training (like me), plays Jazz and Dixieland stuff, built his own 'quiet' studio, and plays in 3 groups. I talked him into joining our band, it's free plus if you don't have an instrument or don't like yours Dr. Hank lends you one.

He's a diabetic curmudgeon, depending on his sugar he's quitting everything and jumping off a bridge or having fun. But he keeps coming back because you always get the 4 to 6 minute training on something, last week it was hemeolias (triples in duple) with examples. The previous week it was circus tempo chromatic runs with valve management. I've been encouraging him to let me video these, but he pulls them out of hats and starts laughing and carrying on, it's spontaneous. If you take the second lowest b flat on the piano, Henry's laugh is 3 of those notes. I can sing that b natural most days but the flat eludes me.

John Conley
Musica est vita