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WHAT IS IN A NAME?
'In bowls, what we now call the Jack
used to be called the mistress and
when one ball just touches another
it is said to kiss it.
'To kiss the Mistress or Jack is to graze another bowl with your own.'
To make a good hit, to shoot right into the eye of the
target
'RUB ON AND KISS THE MISTRESS.'
Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida, iii. 2.1
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KTM's First Incarnation
Kiss The Mistress came into its first incarnation back in 1995, when Ginny and John, asked to play as a fiddle/box duo for
a fund raiser event in Hertford were stuck for a name. A hastily grabbed Brewers dictionary, a random page opened and a finger
point led to KTM and this was the name used for three or four years by the duo in the Hertfordshire area.
After following various other creative projects for a decade, John decided to add a new instrument to his musical collection
and ordered his chromatic button accordion. A period of intense learning followed, during which Ginny realised that her fiddle
playing skills would be inadequate to meet the less common keys that the accordion could play in. As a result she started
to redevelop her 'cello playing which was left behind after University.
The end result was that after realising what a brilliant name Kiss The Mistress was, they reconvened with the exciting
new addition of the amazing Roy!
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