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There are several King's Colleges. Which one should the link point to? --Pt 11:25, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

King's College, Cambridge, according to the external link. Done. --Paul A 02:14, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Shouldn't the article be renamed to King's Singers? --Pt 11:28, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Yes. Done. --Paul A 02:03, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Use of instruments

Sorry if my posting does not follow wikipedia guidlines exactly (I'm new to posting and editing) but the article says that they only perform acapella but have some acconpaniment in their recordings, I have seen then perform with a some famous pianist as accompaniment at the Kennedy Center. I let someone change this if they wan't. Someone should really expand this. They are an excellent group. --Mark 1:50, 06 April 2006 (EST)

Don't fall all over each other trying to fix it or anything. I'm adding "almost" to make "almost exclusively a cappella" (boy, that was hard). Mlibby 03:06, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

I agree. They are excellent. I did an expansion tonight. I hope you like it. Ksfan 18:29, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Added "Use of instruments" heading to this thread. Notwithstanding our painstakenly-created solution to the "exclusively" problem, the sentence in question is still largely incorrect or misleading, because their studio recordings (and live recordings and whatever other kind of recordings you might imagine) sometimes make use of gobs of instruments (like, a whole orchestra, even... zowie!). They're very eclectic and they've been around for a long time, so you can find all kinds of different setups on their recordings.

So the point of this sentence needs to be re-thought. It's not correct in what it's specifically saying, so what, instead, is it trying to accomplish? To give a better feel for their "a cappella fraction" rating? To give an idea of what types of music to expect on their recordings? I'm not trying to poo-poo the point, because these are both potentially worthwhile topics; it's just going to take more than two sentences to cover it. One solution would be to go ahead and start a "discography" section and to include comments about the voicing / "instrumentalization" on each album (a very worthy goal); then the reader will see the eclecticism for themselves. Spending the time to compile the discography (sorry, I don't have the time) would also give the lucky editor plenty of opportunity to come up with the perfect words of how to describe KS's eclecticism etc.

Any takers? Mlibby 03:28, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

I added a partial discography that I hope people will add too. I think that it shows that they, in fact, often collaborate with instrumentalists on recordings. Kp_kyak 22:32, 24 August 2006 (CDT)

[edit] Tenebrae

In recent days I have, twice, reverted needless changes concerning Nigel Short and Tenebrae, including what seems to be a deliberate misspelling. For the record: