The Brass Band Forum

Many years ago I was a very tired little girl on the band coach home after seeing Bradford Victoria play in Manchester. (Dad was euphonium soloist at the time). Everyone was hungry and tucking into their sandwiches over Saddleworth Moor. Someone unwrapped a particularly pungent wedge of Gorgonzola a...

Tash - not sure if it helps your research etc but I was brought up in a banding family and wanted to play the cornet like my dad, uncles, grandad and the rest. But I was a kid in the 1950 and the reaction to my pleading was along the lines of 'Don't be so daft, lass'. I was offered piano or violin l...