Funny story that's sort of trumpet related...

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I started a new software development gig, and my manager is Jason Harrelson. Not the trumpet maker, however. I asked him if he ever got confused with the other guy and he says "occasionally." Pretty funny!

BigDub

One of my former Bandmates with the community band's name is Steve Young. He hardly even knew he had the same name as the Hall Of Fame Quarterback for the 49ers.
An even weirder thing about him was that he played the viola, and quit to play more viola stuff. Now that’s weird.

BigDub

I probably told this story before. But it’s worth telling again for those who may not have had the torture of the boring story told to them.
Anyway, 6th grade group trumpet lesson, and a kid named Jack stood out on a certain line of music we were all playing in ……sort of……unison.
Stood out- in a very bad way. The teacher tried to make him feel better and approached him from behind his metal folding chair, to squeeze his shoulders teasingly like. Well, Jack was sort of leaning on his trumpet with his chin on his hands and the bell directly on the metal chair, with no place to go. The teacher was a big guy, and continued twirling him around while still applying good natured pressure on Jack's shoulders.
After he felt Jack was reasonably reassured that all would be ok, he stepped back to resume the lesson, when Jack looked at his rented trumpet. The only way I could describe the way it looked was if you were somehow able to shoot it like an arrow in a bow at a concrete wall.
We didn’t laugh. I laugh now. But we didn’t laugh then.
The teacher took it right away and had it repaired. Came out great. Couldn’t tell anything had happened at all. Crazy experience.
And that was 1962 or 63.

Dale Proctor

I sat next to John Williams in a trumpet section years ago. No, not that John Williams…lol

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@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

Oh, the guitarist? He's excellent. Didn't know that he also played trumpet.

barliman2001

I once sat next to Wynton Marsalis.

At breakfast.

SSmith1226

@barliman2001 said in Funny story that's sort of trumpet related...:

I once sat next to Wynton Marsalis.

At breakfast.

When I was in college in the late 1960’s, during a concert, I got to stand next to Freddie Hubbard, talk, and perform with him.

Of course it was during intermission in the mens room. Our performance, by the way, was a duet version of “Handel’s Water Music”.

Dr GO

@barliman2001 said in Funny story that's sort of trumpet related...:

I once sat next to Wynton Marsalis.

At breakfast.

My neighbor dated Wyton Marsalis.

Jolter

@ssmith1226 said in Funny story that's sort of trumpet related...:

Of course it was during intermission in the mens room. Our performance, by the way, was a duet version of “Handel’s Water Music”.

A friend of mine at University got invited as a student representative at the Nobel Prize dinner. Yes, they do that, dozens of students attend every year. There's a lottery for it. Anyway, he ended up at the urinal next to His Majesty the King of Sweden. He mentioned being slightly intimidated but declined to comment on what piece was performed or any other details.

Discretion, always discretion, he told me.

Seth of Lagos

@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'.