[TPIN] Funeral foul up

Robert "Robbie" Robinson rrmemphis at comcast.net
Mon May 5 09:39:53 EDT 2008


This isn't a foul up where I made a mistake, but a couple of years ago, a 
friend of mine died.  He was a trumpet player, and in his day, an excellent 
one.  I never knew of any song he couldn't play, and play it correctly.

Anyway, he was a war veteran, and his funeral was a military funeral, 
complete with a seargant and corporal to perform the service.  Apparently, 
neither one played the trumpet, and they played a recording of Taps, through 
a small speaker.  It was very cheezy.

The irony of the whole situation was there was a room full of musicians, and 
at least 10 trumpet players that would have been honored to play Taps, but 
instead, we had to endure a bad recording of it. 



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