The quartet

Three people, one staff, no fourth who sells boxes.

The loft is small on purpose. If a fourth chair appears, it is a player sitting while dye dries.

Helga Voss

Reads soles the way she used to read cello parts at Washington Pavilion rehearsals. She inks the staff. She will stop a measure if you keep talking over the dye.

Nils Brant

Writes the interval in degrees and owns the bending bar. He grew up on the east bank of the Big Sioux and still hates a heel trench more than a miss.

Sable Keene

Names the prairie hour. She keeps the rye strip alive through January and will not let you book a dawn voicing if you only play after work on Minnesota Avenue.