April 2016

76 trombones - my dream sculpture

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Like most kids of my generation I saw the movie “The Music Man” when it first came out in our local theater.  Not many years after the movie I joined a marching band. It wasn’t so much a marching band as it was a drum corps supporting a group of majorettes. The “Owen Sound High Steppers” toured around southern Ontario in Canada for many years. My job in the drum corps was to hold down the bottom end. The bass drum. I guess I didn’t have the chops to play the snare drum.

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