Notorious Barfield Excuses

HRGB sell tea-towels with various excuses people have used - and we now have enough to make one ourselves!

• "I thought red meant right hand"
• "My clapper's turning round"
• "It's Glenn Miller - you're supposed to play it wrong..."
• "I don't play F sharp when it's G flat, do I?"
• "That's not red - it's red sharp"
• "Well, it sounds better like I was playing it"
• "This is old music - the greens are reds, except where they're blues"
• "I forgot to put page 3a in, so I had to go back to 1 then to 4"
• "I turned the bell round so it would play quietly - then it didn't ring at all"
• "You know we never play White Christmas right the first week"
• "I could see Bill - it put me off"
• "I didn't have the bells turned round like I usually do, so you could hear what I was ringing"
• "Oh, you meant that Pie Jesu?"