I took up the horn when I was eight or so. It took years before I was any good; devilish thing. Where I went to school they didn't have orchestra but concert band, no strings. I actually have a soft spot for band music and military bands. I saw the Trooping of the Colour back in the 80s; what marvellous music and ceremony!
I think it was in '82 I attended the Berlin Tattoo in this huge sportsplatz called the Deutschlandhalle. It was a large enough building that the helicopter Focke Wulf built before the war was actually flown inside.
Anyway, at the end of the Tattoo, there were a couple numbers played by all the bands massed; the sound just surrounded you like a blanket and your entire being vibrated and carbonated your blood. An amazing thing to have seen and heard, and the clearest of memories to this day.
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