Do you remember when....

If anybody would like to find out how fast they can run or even just move, ask me to sing close to you. You may be surprised at the speed at which you can move!

I have always sung in choirs and recently did a course in church music, which included playing the organ, piano and conducting choirs. We also did a theory section on children's choirs. Growlers can be "cured" - or rather, trained, if done with care, to sing like the other kids.

As an alto since I was 11, I never sung the descant, but my sister did, and I know how it goes!

Yes, I remember it well!! . Lucky if I can stay in tune nowadays, such a shame as I love to sing.

But jackyB is there a cure for a 69 year old growler?

Has any of you sung 'While shepherds watched' to the tune of 'Ilkley Moor'. You have to sing the third line of the verse twice and the fourth line three times. A great improvement, I reckon. As the organist of a village church, when I'm feeling like being controversial, I sometimes play it with a mixed reception from the congregation.

I used to sing in church choirs and choral societies but haven't for a long while and I think my voice has rusted over. However I have put my name down for something called a Rock Choir starting here in in the New Year - I'm a bit apprehensive as its classical music I really like to sing but I'll give it a go as there are no auditions and individuals are not picked out.

I love to sing, and have the tune in my head, it just comes out differently.

oldgoat i too am a sixty nine year old growler! I used to like to sing - i adore choral music - but these days my voice sounds increasingly as if it has been through a cheese grater! The only one who likes to hear me is DGS who likes me to sing him to sleep when he stays here (at eight, i hoped he would have grown out of it by now, but no...). He likes gentle Scottish, and some Irish, folk songs, the Eriskay Love Lilt being a favourite, and the Skye Boat Song.

Well, oldgoat - I'm sure it can be done, but it would take time and practice!