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To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Concert disasters
From: TAYLOR_ROY@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: 15 Jul 96 16:10:00 -0700
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My worst experience hardly matches Tim's chronicle of woe, but it
certainly was my biggest disaster in 30+ years of playing euphonium.

I was about 13 (that number again) and the budding soloist with our
local town band in New Zealand.  Someone asked me to play a solo at a
school concert (outdoors) and being a typical brash youth, I didn't
think to take the precaution of pegging the music to the stand.
Naturally, the obvious happened and about halfway through that lovely,
flowing finale of "La Belle American", the music disappeared over the
fence, leaving me soundless and bright red in front of about 500
laughing kids.

The next time I played it with the band, the music was triple pegged,
and I had the whole piece completely memorised. (I can still play it
without music, even after all these years.)

Since that day, I've always taken pegs with me wherever I play.


Roy Taylor		       (email address: TAYLOR_ROY@xxxxxxxxxx)
Principal Euphonium
City of Dandenong Band
Melbourne, AUSTRALIA


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