All this time I’ve been carrying a Personal Location Beacon and a whistle. 
Man, Stranded After Argument with Wife, Rescued After Searchers Hear His Saxophone
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Saxophones On The Air.
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…can you play a tune on your whistle. 
Geoff vk3sq
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After a day SOTAing in the Southern Taiwan mountains you can according to my brochure “catch an evening fright over the mountains to Taipei”.
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Of course - it only cost a penny!
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I too have often engaged in jazzy free-form tooting while out on the hills, good to know I can say it’s “for safety” now…
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You are Epic Sax Guy and I claim my £5!
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I can’t sing, but on the way back from my first activation of GM/NS-126 Cnoc an Liath-bhaid Mhoir I ended up doing a rendition of Bear necessities from the Jungle book as I wandered back in the sunshine…..
Never met a soul all the way out and back apart from a curious stag that came to see what the noise was…
Andy
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Singing on the trail can, in fact, be a “bear necessity” at times. I came around a corner in the wilderness to discover a black bear in the middle of the trail. I backed off as far as I could while still keeping it in sight, and started singing. She turned towards the sound and growled, while shooing her cub out of the way, then followed after it up the hill to safety.
Some people might have a similar reaction to my singing.
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I had my alto out tonight, it is in the sort of case that has clips for an assembled clarinet and a section that will take a flute, just for fun I tried and managed to fit in my 817, antenna and tuner, a bottle of water and a few Snickers bars. Dump the clarinet and I could get a Sotabeams pole in its place, so my safety gear holds the station! 
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Years ago, while visiting Shenandoah National Park I attended a ranger-led program on black bears, which are quite numerous in the park. This park ranger said that of all the ways to alert a bear of your presence (thereby avoiding a surprise encounter and giving the bear time to avoid you), the most effective is the sound of a singing human voice. Ever since, I have taken each hike in bear country as an opportunity to work through my repertoire of 60s and 70s rock songs.
If I heard myself singing, I’d want to avoid me, too.
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Just to slip in an aside, I was saddened to learn that the jazz tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins died yesterday at the age of 95. He was possibly the last great soloist of the bebop era, those of us not into jazz might have heard his solo in the track “Waiting on a friend” in the Stones 1981 album “Tattoo You” and he contributed music to the film “Alfie”.
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I’d have said Hard Bop Brian but… I suppose he was somewhat in both schools. He was rather good. I particularly like “Strode Road” from Saxophone Colossus. It starts off sounding like a typical blues influenced track and then goes off spiralling around the original theme. As Mrs. LLD would say “Oh that’s far too random” when it isn’t if you’ve listened to enough of this stuff. But an occasional visitor to the Bop world would probably agree with Mrs. LLD. Max Roach’s riding of the cymbals on this track is just spot on. Over the coming weeks the LLD hifi will be reestablished in the lounge after all the building work a few months back and I’ll give the setup a good workout with this.
I think you are right that’s all the great soloists from my favourite period of Jazz now gone though Brian.
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Didn’t know he was 95. Some age.
Got me wondering if he ever played with one of my all-time favourite trumpet players, Lee Morgan.
Nothing recorded has surfaced (afaik) but they must surely have been in the same circles. It is thought Lee Morgan quotes a Rollins solo here at 4 minutes in:
The one that got me in to Lee Morgan though was his work with Charles Earland on his 1972 album Intensity, specifically the track Happy Cause I’m Going Home.
It is tragic and bittersweet though. Not long after recording the album (I forget if it was a couple of days or a few weeks) he was shot dead by his girlfriend in a nightclub in New York.
Another genius taken too soon, as they usually are. Amazing to think Rollins and Morgan never played together though…
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Yeah, Hard Bop, but he went on to the Free Jazz era and then the late 20th century eclecticism. I learned a lot from him, specially that characteristic fuzzy staccato in the low register - hard to do but rewarding when mastered! Strode Road is a masterpiece, with a serpentine piano solo. Nice!
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