0C in March?

And 100 years isn't very old, I have three guitars that are 60+, and two more 40+, and another 30+, so that's 300 total!

Tom

Well, true - it's comfortable 4C right now at 19:00 My mistake

I didn't count the age of the bow!

In the years since I am living in Switzerland I have been in more than few socializing, dinners, parties etc, organized by Swiss, were the organizer of the event collected money for the expenses (drinks, food etc). Usually there was a box where we left the money and it was also normal to tell/ask how much to drop into the box.
I guess it is completely ok to collect money for expenses, no one ever raised an eye that it is improper or illegal. Even when the whole thing is completely strange to my Slavic habits, it seems quite normal in Zentralschweiz.

wow - certainly not the case here in th Far West.

When we host concerts, we certainly do not charge and all the monies go to the artists. We are lucky we are also allowed to organise concerts at 'our' Church - with no charge for rental, as long as I do after cleaning myself.

I was reading the press release, in French if that matters, from the BAG announcement last Friday and the loosening of restrictions on indoor gatherings specifically said from 5 to 10 for "friends and family". So gathering 10 strangers or random people is not in line with what they said.

I know the spirit of the law might be getting a bit twisted, but the rule itself says max 10 people in a private gathering. It recommends them to be from as few household as possible.

So by the looks of it you'll get a load of frowns from people, but I can't see anything wrong with it. As far as friends go, is there such a thing as a legal definition of a friend? There are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet...

It will be 15 this week, just give it a few days wait.

10 people and music should make some noise, I'd be more worried about neighbors. Unless it is a single house outside from city center.

My opinion? Well, you asked for it. I, like anyone else, currently live in a World (including even Switzerland) in which everyone is suffering, in some way or another, and making huge sacrifices.

It’s completely up to you if you want to host this tooting and hooting thing. That’s one of the reasons why I double FFP2 mask for even the simplest of daily tasks.

It seems that you already know the answer to your questions. But are looking for a bunch of us to say, of course you are right.

And this is why the infection and death rates are increasing again. You need to isolate, not to find cleaver ways how to get around the rules.

Recently very good friends of ours, a couple, asked us to come and play for them. They are music lovers.
We didn't shake hands, didn't hug, did not have a glass of wine. We came (me and my partner - both bubble and music) all of us wearing ffp2, we unpacked our instruments and play 30min live music for them. Then we packed, talked for 5 min and left.
They wrote me later in the night it was the best thing and probably the most amazing moment for them since October - when last live events were allowed and numbers started getting higher..

Some people need shopping mall, some people might need this. While one thing is allowed, the other is not.

I don't think with our mini concert for our friends we increased the infection /death rates.