@dale-proctor said in Funny story that's sort of trumpet related...:
I sat next to John Williams in a trumpet section years ago. No, not that John Williams…lol
A few years before Brassed Off, my concert band had the honour of playing a set directly after Grimethorpe had given an absolutely spellbinding, vituoso performance of the Lohengrin Prelude.
So I duly settled into the chair just vacated by THE Alan Morrison :
... and launched into Girl from Ipanema.
And that, my dear friends, is the very definition of the phrase 'from the sublime to the ridiculous'.