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Wedding at Old Luxters Barn near High Wycombe

Last Thursday, we played for a wedding held in the beautiful venue of Old Luxters Barn which is on the border between Oxfordshire and South Buckinghamshire. Although Thursday weddings used to be uncommon, they are becoming increasingly popular as many suppliers have better availability than they would do on a peak Saturday over the summer.
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When the music suddenly stops….

As a professional string quartet with many years of training, one of the things we  particularly pride ourselves on are our ‘ensemble skills’. This is having an awareness of what each of us is playing and responding immediately to that. It’s also having an idea of the external goings on whilst concentrating fully on the [...]