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We had an excellent final practise for the year, with a quartet of us warming up then working pretty solidly on a couple of pieces.

Four of us for singing today, and as Katherina Weyssin has been studying up on dynamics of the time, we got to make a start on introducing these into our singing.

Just a trio of us today, but certainly an industrious trio - we put in some solid work, and produced some nice harmonies.

Just a few of us in attendance today, but a good practice with the challenge of learning some new verses for one of our favourite rounds, and starting to work on a completely new song as well!

With a few of our regulars away today, singing was a little quieter than normal - but still mostly melodious.

A decent practise with a lot of things sounding really quite nice today. It's getting easier to find notes off one note as well.

Yet another good practise. Today we started to learn how to pick our notes out from one starting note, and did some exercises playing with moving up and down a scale. It was hard work, but also fun and interesting.

We had a few more people back again today, making a fuller group. We got through some of our favourites, did a little work on a few pieces, and tried something new.

Today we had an out-of-towner join us (although really, she's one of our own): Mistress Amalie von Brisache. A smaller group than normal singing, however, we had a fantastic afternoon.

A somewhat quieter singing practice, with a few somewhat scratchy voices - but productive and with some nice sounds nevertheless.