The Tale Of The Trumpet

tentmaker_oz · Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 5:43 am Post subject:

I just stumbled across this Story.
Moving story...

http://www.itswritten.com/article170.html

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I am a musical instrument called a trumpet, kick back, and with you I shall share my story. It is a story you have no doubt encountered many times before in various forms, but this is my story.
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To begin with, I was formed in the year 1908 of the twentieth century, hand crafted from the finest materials available in a small workshop on the outskirts of Perth in Western Australia.
My maker was a huge rough - hewn man who had migrated from Hungary at the turn of the century, he had been making musical instruments for most of his long life and in 1908 he made me.

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Christopher Booth

_PhilPicc · Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 6:41 am Post subject:

Christopher,

Thanks for sharing that with us.
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Philip Satterthwaite

We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again."
- Sir Thomas Beecham to a musician during a rehearsal