[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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