<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all<div class="">Love you all but i can’t sing that way, nor can I do church this way.</div><div class="">Good for you for your stalwartness!</div><div class="">truly love you all. </div><div class="">Bronwyn</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 17, 2021, at 8:14 PM, Beth Damon via Choir <<a href="mailto:choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org" class="">choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Hi - I’d like to have a look at them and possible learn to sew them. <div class="">Is the idea to have a bigger area for air in the front?</div><div class="">Anyway - let me inspect one once you have one in - any of you can you who order, please let me measure it etc? </div><div class="">Sorry to miss you this week. I’m in the Unadilla HMS Pinafore as well.</div><div class="">Hope to see you all soon!!</div><div class="">Beth</div><div class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jul 17, 2021, at 8:09 PM, Phil Morse via Choir <<a href="mailto:choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org" class="">choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class="">Donia,<div class="">Brenda and I would buy a pair of the singers masks.<br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Phil Morse<div class="">370 Dodge Farm Rd</div><div class="">Barre, VT 05641</div><div class="">802-558-7535</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jul 17, 2021, at 5:55 PM, Heather Moz via Choir <<a href="mailto:choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org" class="">choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I would buy one as well.<br class=""><div class="">Heather</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 10:41 AM Lindsay Wade via Choir <<a href="mailto:choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org" class="">choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class="">I’ll buy a singers mask. Lindsay<div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jul 17, 2021, at 10:10 AM, Donia Prince via Choir <<a href="mailto:choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org" target="_blank" class="">choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hello!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks to everyone for our gathering this last Thursday--what a lovely time it was to be together again! </div><div class="">With recent news I'm feeling somewhat less hopeful about conditions turning back towards the better. And so thinking it is worth looking into options to make singing with masks easier and more pleasurable (as we talked about at rehearsal) sooner rather than later. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The two main options are face mask frames and singer's masks. I have ordered one set of these frames to see how they work:</div><div class=""> <a href="https://www.4ocean.com/products/4ocean-face-mask-support-frames?variant=37976782405825" target="_blank" class="">https://www.4ocean.com/products/4ocean-face-mask-support-frames?variant=37976782405825</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In general, however, I'm not sure they will work well enough to sing in. I looked up some other styles of frames, and many comments say that while they work great for general breathing, they tend not to be big enough to allow you to open your mouth wide without them sliding out of place. The ones in the link are a little more expensive than the silicone ones that are more common, and might be better.</div><div class="">Various online sheet music outlets now sell singer's and instrumentalist masks, and don't sell any mask frames, so that also speaks against them, but we'll see.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is the mask that Nan showed at rehearsal--seems to be the standard for this type of mask:</div><a href="https://www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask" target="_blank" class="">https://www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask</a><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'd be interested in anyone's thoughts about all of this, and also interested to hear who would be willing to contribute towards a purchase of these masks for the choir, if we decide we should do this. There just wouldn't be money in the budget for the church to pay for 20 or 25 of them, but we could probably provide some, if enough people were to pay for their own. If we order more than 20 there is a 5% discount (not huge, but something.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Reminder there is no rehearsal this week--the 22nd. We'll meet again on the 29th.</div><div class="">Donia</div></div>
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