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Tag Archives: saxophone
Snippets 4: First notes – Hadrian’s Wall of Sound, Bowness-on-Solway
At 5.45am the tide was still on the ebb, standing waves (‘reestings’) corrugated the surface of the channel, and the only sound amid the weighty silence of the still air was the trilling of oyster-catchers. I walked, and waited, and … Continue reading
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