When I was doing Computer Studies at school (remember the BBC Micro anyone?) one of my teacher’s pet concepts was the “paperless office”, that great day in the future when all information would be held on computers and people would no longer communicate by letter but by something called “electronic mail” (sounds ridiculous doesn’t it?), […]

I recently posted this on the SibeliusMusic chat page in response to a request for information about the Wagner Tuba, an instrument which is unsurprisingly overlooked by most orchestration textbooks. I thought I’d put it up here for the benefit of other SibMus users (and anyone else!) in the future. At some point I’ll […]

Well, summer’s over, England have won the Ashes and I’m having to face up to a few hard realities; namely, I will never again hear the dulcet tones of Richie Benaud on these shores, furthermore, if I want to see any cricket on telly again I will finally be forced to get Sky (but […]