Country Life Crossword

[frajan]

Help please:

6D - Event raising funds partly for a gym (3) R?? (Possibly R?G)

8D - Choicest part of chorus about a donkey, perhaps (5,2,6)
???S? , O? , B?R?E?

[kettledrum]

6d rag

[ubasses]

6 rag

[Mamyalynne]

8 Beast of burden

[Buenchico]

Fo R A Gym = Rag (as in a university's rag week)

[Captain2]

Beast of Burden

[Mamyalynne]

Surprisingly - Burden can mean 'Chorus'

Burden
5. Music
a. A drone, as of a bagpipe or pedal point.
b. Archaic The chorus or refrain of a composition.
c. Archaic The bass accompaniment to a song.

[Jackdaw33]

I have fond memories of Rag Week in Newcastle as a small boy. My mother would always take me to see the Rag Week parade by Newcastle University (at the time called King's College, Durham, before its charter as a separate institution in 1963).

[Jackdaw33]

Burden in that sense is a corruption of Bourdon, one of the largest pipes on an organ which produces the lowest notes. Many's the time I have had to juggle my Bourdon whilst fiddling with my Diapason.

[Mamyalynne]

Painful.