Ivo's cactus sax solo

Here's a description of the contestant's attempt. Someone's probably working on collecting some images to illustrate it.

Ivo finds Mark Brown outside the caravan, with his saxophone, and the two spend some time staring at one another, and then at Alex. Having read the first task brief, Ivo decides that his composition is going to be based on the letters in his own name, and in the word 'taskmaster'. This gives him just G-A-A-A-A-E, since most of the letters in these words are not musical notes. He writes these out on a piece of paper, and then appears to write the same notes out again in reverse, underneath. When Alex asks him if he has any kind of particular rhythm in mind for his tune, he suggests "jaunty". Having read the second task brief, Ivo grabs one of the large plastic cacti that are scattered around the property, and tapes some spoons to it, to act as its keys (though he only has time to add seven, rather than the 25 that are on the real instrument). He then spray-paints most of his instrument gold, to finish it off, before adding a mouthpiece made from aluminium foil. Before miming to his solo, he introduces it as 'Toxic Gold Fumes (Mainly in A)'. It seems that Mark has been able to work wonders with the limited notes, providing an enjoyable tune for him to mime to. Greg enjoys his instrument, his solo, and his performance, so awards him joint first place with Kiell and Jenny.

(Written by Karl Craven)