Hats off to all those who help
For this blog I want to doff my hat to everyone who steps in when someone else is in need. Wherever and whenever that might be. I’ve always admired that kind of instinctive generosity and, as it turns out, I’ve now been on the receiving end of it more than once. It was a strange position to be in back in March when people at the second day of the Area contest kept asking, “Did you know about the bass trombone player whose instrument fell apart moments before going on stage yesterday?”. It wasn’t the first time my trombone had chosen chaos at a crucial moment. Back in December at a cathedral concert of all places, I opened the case before sound check and immediately knew something was wrong. Both triggers were hanging in the wrong place; the mechanism draped around them like a metallic spiderweb. Thankfully, one of our deps is an instrument repairer, and managed to put it all back together in the dimly lit cathedral, with the most basic of tools before we went on. A Christmas miracle, c...
