Do you remember when....

and Oh Come All Ye Faithful?

Yes, I remember when I could sing quite well! Not any more though! ?

Do you try though - I do in the kitchen if there is no-one else in! And now on the radio my favourite It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - nostalgic afternoon here.

I can sing beautifully ............... no idea why everyone flinches when I start

Love the descant to Silent Night

It's because they are not musical aggie.

No. Bad, worse, worser here. Took me quite a while to realise I am tone deaf.

I used to have a lovely soprano voice. I sang with a Choral Society, usually second soprano. I can't reach the high notes now. I do sing with gusto but only in the car, or the kitchen!

I've always had an alto voice so can't reach descants.
But I can still rememeber and sing along with the alto line in many classical pieces.

I love a good sing, it cheers me up or reduces me to tears but I don't do it very often in case I frighten the neighbours!
It's very therapeutic.

TriciaF me too. I never could sing descants I am definately a second alto.
I do now know the alto part of Once in Royal better than I know the main tune, same with a few other carols.

I want to get back to my U3A singing group after Xmas. I hope the new leader is an improvement! I dropped out when my daughter died last May but I think I am ready now....feel it would be therapeutic for me.

You can also sing Once in Royal to the tune of Hark the Herald. That gem of information is free by the way. The choir master might not like it though.

I used to sing second soprano but certainly wouldn't even attempt it now!

I agree AllieO, it is therapeutic (so long as it isn't me doing the singing!)
I do occasionally sing when I'm alone in the car....

I belong to a community choir; great fun, no auditions needed (or I wouldn't be there!), and at this time of year we sing in local churches or, as tomorrow, at Truro Cathedral for their lunch-time shoppers' concert. We all really feel the benefit of singing together, our ages range from 40 to 94, and our choir master is very, very patient! Look out for your local community choir, you will have great fun and even get your breathing back!

I too remember singing descant in the school choir. Sadly, nowadays, I'm in the alto, rather than the soprano, section in our community choir.

I agree with you dahlia that there is nothing to lift the spirits - and improve your physical and mental health - as much as singing in a choir.

I recently joined U3A music makers in Perth and I absolutely love it, am regaining my soprano!!

Not sure whether my singing is any good, as I would not dare inflict it on anybody, but it feels good when I'm alone in my car, bombing down the motorway with something loud to sing along to at the top of my voice ...

I have never been able to, so nothing new! I would love to be able to sing.

When I was in the school choir, I could sing the descant to Come All Ye Faithful beautifully (or so I thought) and judging from the looks I used to get from my fellow choristers, very loudly.

I'm with ONW - I've often thought how weird I must look to other road users ...... LOL

Don't do what I did once when singing in the car - driving along on a lovely summer day singing "Summertime, when the living....." at the top of my voice, and drove straight across a cross roads without stopping to check
Luckily nothing coming.

I would love to be able to sing with other people but am scared of them hearing my voice. This stems from my junior school days when our teacher used to walk past listening for'growlers' who were then thrown out of the choir. In church I just mouth the words but occasionally emit the odd grunt by accident.

oldgoat... I could have written that myself! Grunt, grunt